Motivational Interviewing

Venue
Kingswood Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood
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
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Event description

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 people 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 people articulate and recognise the need for change. As such, it is an effective primer to increase engagement with people who have not yet achieved a sufficient level of commitment and move them into action with confrontation. As such, it can inform and develop the 3 conversations approach by increasing engagement, develop potential people strengths and create self-directed motivation for change. 

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 people 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.

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: 

· Explore the critical drivers of change.

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

· Practice core skills in reflective listening.

· Integrate motivational interviewing skills with a 3 conversations approach.


Start Date
Monday 24 June 2019
End Date
Monday 24 June 2019
Closing Date
Sunday 23 June 2019
Times
09:30 - 16:30
Maximum Places
18 
Cost
£0.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No