Registration is open to the first 85 alumni and friends.
Check-in: 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Presentation: 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location and Directions: 218 Natural Science Complex North Campus, University at Buffalo
No parking permit required after 3:00 p.m.
Closest parking lots include: Cooke and Hochstetter.
Instructor: Peter Sobota
Description: This presentation is organized as an introduction to the principles, strategies, and spirit of the Motivational Interviewing (MI) approach to help clients build commitment and reach a decision to change problematic behaviors. MI is defined as “a collaborative, goal-oriented style of communication with particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to specific goals by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion”. (Miller and Rollnick, 2012) The theoretical basis of MI lies in the construct of “ambivalence” and the conflict between readiness and reluctance that is common when clients consider behavior change. In addition to offering practical strategies designed to promote motivation to change, the presentation will highlight the “MI style” of therapeutic relationship and MI’s application to practice with “mandated” and “resistant” clients.
Learning Objectives: Identify the client’s stage of readiness for change and practical caseworker tasks at those stages; Recognize the impact of caseworker’s interactional style on the counseling process; Identify the critical components of client motivation; Adapt practice skills to reduce client resistance to change and understand conditions that impact client motivation; Recognize and influence the state of ambivalence in the change process; Utilize practical strategies to elicit motivation and commitment to change behavior
Content What do we know about why clients change? Foundational Concepts of Motivational Interviewing Critical Components of Client Motivation Ambivalence The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing General Principles Underlying Motivational Interviewing Approach Strategies for Building Motivation for Change Stages of Change/Trans-Theoretical Model (and what to do at those stages).
NY LMSW & LCSW Credits are being provided through the University at Buffalo School of Social Work’s Office of Continuing Education. This Office is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0001.
Three contact hours have been submitted and approved by NYSED. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.
Hosted by the UB School of Social Work Alumni Association