Skip to content

View Details

Venue
Webinar: Zoom, Webinar
venue
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
tutors
Admin Contact
Target Audience
CAH Staff / Social Care Staff
target audience
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care / Children and Young People
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care
Event description

This will be delivered via Zoom and hosted by Phil Harris (Training Exchange). You will be sent a Zoom invite nearer the time.

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 the 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. It is a useful skill 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.

Method of Delivery: The training programme comes with an extensive booklet for each participant. 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 free e-learning and further resources to re-cap, review and refresh learning.

Learning outcomes
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


Start Date
Monday 13 January 2025
End Date
Monday 13 January 2025
Closing Date
Sunday 12 January 2025
Times
09:30 - 16:00
Maximum Places
16 
Cost
£103.50 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No