VideoCathy Cole, LCSW.
Summary: Thousands of helping professionals--including counselors, nurses, dietitians, and parole officers--are now using Motivational Interviewing (MI) with outstanding results. This in-depth video provides you with a unique opportunity to learn MI's core concepts and practice its foundational skills. By watching this video, you will gain a deeper understanding of how MI helps people overcome their internal obstacles to change and learn how to help your clients make decisions they can willingly and confidently enact. In this first video in the series Motivational Interviewing Step by Step, expert MI trainer Cathy Cole discusses the principles and spirit of MI, along with core concepts and techniques such as sustain talk versus change talk, the righting reflex, reflections and affirmations, and other ingredients for change. She describes current thinking on the process of behavior change and provides detailed guidelines for putting MI into practice in a variety of settings. With an emphasis on learning and practicing the fundamental skills of MI, this video contains numerous technique demonstrations with William Miller, the founder of MI, along with exercises in which viewers can pause the video, practice the skills, and then see how Miller and Cole would respond. Core Concepts establishes the critical philosophical and technical underpinnings of MI, which are explored in greater detail in the subsequent volumes: Increasing Importance, Resolving Ambivalence, and Building Confidence. By watching this video, you will be able to: describe the spirit of Motivational Interviewing and how it differs from other approaches; understand how MI is applied in counseling sessions, including developing a partnership, and listening and responding to the language of change; identify and practice specific techniques used in MI to engage clients, help them fully explore their ambivalence to change, and develop an action plan. Keywords: sustain talk, change talk, righting reflex, motivational interviewing, addiction, MI, Counseling, counselling, Social Work, Social Worker, Therapy, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy.net, Therapist.--Supplied by publisher.