Motivational Interviewing: Clinical Interventions that Promote Client-Centered Readiness to Change

• •Modify techniques to utilize in numerous settings to motivate clients toward change


• •Construct key questions and statements that can be immediately applied in practice


• •Develop tools to overcome client resistance and enhance intrinsic motivation


• •Identify and overcome the ?traps? that hinder effectiveness


• •Discover the use of the GROW model for behavioral change


• •Explain techniques to elicit self-motivational statements from clients

Promoting Positive Behavioral Change
Due to rising health costs and to time constraints, it is becoming increasingly important that we have tools that can be utilized in the brief intervention setting and that will quickly move the client down the path toward positive behavioral change. Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques are proven interventions that both lessen client ambivalence and support the development of a workable change plan.
This one-day seminar will help participants utilize brief, client-centered techniques that can be immediately practiced in almost any setting. Attendees will leave with a fresh, new approach for working with resistant clients and will be energized to motivate their clients to take up healthier lifestyle patterns.