Safer Cornwall & DAAT Training: Motivational Interviewing 2 Day Online Training – 13th & 20th December 2024

Motivational interviewing is a leading approach to increase motivation and commitment to change. It was first developed in the alcohol field, but as they had identified that there was no specific addiction psychology, it has been developed in a wide range of areas including social work, offending, mental health and homelessness fields. It has proven particularly effective with stuck or entrenched clients from a wide range of backgrounds.

This course maps the key factors that elicit change and demonstrates how Motivational Interviewing works alongside these forces. Drawing on both person centred and directive techniques, it offers practical skills to assist the workers to helps clients articulate and recognise the need for change. As such, it is an effective primer to increase engagement with clients who have not yet achieved a sufficient level of commitment and move them into action without confrontation.

Who is This Course For?: Motivational Interviewing is useful for a wide range of social issues. Its primary focus is on igniting motivation to change, and so it is helpful when clients are stuck in problems and not advancing in change. As such it is helpful in all change and recovery-based services such as mental health, substance misuse, offending, social work, domestic violence, supported housing, young people’s services, family work and more besides.

Course Aims & Objectives: By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:

• Support pre-contemplative clients to consider change

• Explore the drivers of motivation

• Describe the influence of the relationship on motivation to change.

• Practice core skills in Motivational Interviewing

• Reduce resistance to change

• Structure and deliver a Motivational interviewing brief intervention

Method of Delivery: The training course is highly interactive, even during presentations. It uses a wide variety of learning approaches including presentations, pairs and small group work exercises and self-assessment. The course is also supported with a comprehensive workbook and free online e-learning and further resources to re-cap, review and refresh learning.