Motivational Interviewing & Beyond (A Module of the Certificate in RBT)

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Approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Can be taken as an individual one-day course or as a part of a Certificate in Resource Based Therapies (4 days training) approved by the BPS Learning Centre.

Course Fees Per Day:

Early Bird Discount: £99 + VAT (£116.33) per delegate (available for all bookings received by SDS Ltd 1 month or more prior the course date). Regular price: £125 + VAT (£146.88) for bookings received within a month of a chosen date.

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This course outlines both motivational interviewing (MI) and behaviour change skills whilst addressing additional common motivational issues and strategies. The use of Force Field Analysis is outlined as a motivational assessment tool and the issue of motivating antagonistic clients along with low mood/inactive clients is explored. The course has broad applicability for a range of client groups – from offenders to those with mental health problems, from adolescents to working with older people.

A one day training course designed to empower you to motivate your clients and patients. You’ll be taken through a range of issues, strategies and tips designed to improve your motivational strategies whatever your client group – from treatment non-compliance through offending behaviour to working with those with severe mental health problems. This evidence-based seminar will address the following issues:

• Practical ideas developed from Motivational Interviewing (M.I.), environmental psychology and learning theory
• Effective evidence-based strategies for all practitioners - whether working in long term therapeutic relationships or with brief 5 minute contacts
• Learn to motivate clients who do not want to talk to you or even be in the same room as you!
• Video demonstrations of techniques
• Numerous worksheets to take away and start using immediately to motivate your clients
• Learn how doing LESS can motivate your clients MORE
• Discover the research on how what your client SAYS increases what they DO afterwards….and how to get them to say it!
• Prevent and manage resistance more effectively
• Learn how to make goal setting work and feedback more effective as motivating factors

Course Outline:

09.15 Registration & refreshments
10.00 How do we currently try to motivate clients
- Outline of common styles
- Strengths and limitations of such styles
- Discussion
10.30 Arousal & Motivation
- Yerkes-Dodson & the 21st century
- Why are ‘low energy’ clients unmotivated and what can be done about it?
- Force-Field Analysis: A powerful tool for assessing & increasing motivation
11.00 Stages of change model & implications for motivational strategies
11.15 Refreshments
11.45 Pre-Contemplators: The forgotten client group
- Why do we have totally unmotivated clients
- General principles for motivating "unmotivated clients"
- "Depressed", "Inactive" & "Low Energy" clients
- "Rebellious", "Compulsory Attendance" clients.....or ones who simply hate you
Video illustration
13.00 Lunch (by own arrangement)
14.00 Working with uncertain or ambivalent clients
- Key principles and attitudes on information giving and handling resistance
- The role of motivational statements and how to elicit them
- Working with clients with variable motivation. Video illustration
15.15 Refreshments
15.45 Goal setting & Feedback For Increasing Motivation
- Powerful tools for good and bad
- Making goal setting more effective
- Increasing the effectiveness of feedback
16.15 Plenary
16.30 Finish

Course Leader:

Paul Grantham
MSc, M.Clin.Psychol, C.Psychol

Paul is a clinical psychologist with a background within the NHS in community care. He currently trains extensively within the NHS, Social Services and the Independent sector on a range of therapy based topic areas. His interests currently lie in addressing obstacles to personal and behavioral change. An extensively informed, and humorous presenter, he emphasises the practical rather than just the theory of client based work