Motivational Interviewing Advanced level training course

‘Motivational Interviewing is a
collaborative, goal oriented style of
communication with particular attention
to the language of change'

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This course is designed for those who have completed our Introductory and Intermediate Level Theory and Skills MI courses, or who have developed a solid understanding of MI through other previous learning, and are interested in improving their skills. The course is appropriate for counsellors, addiction service workers, social workers, health behaviour change personnel, mental health professionals, doctors, nurses, employment service personnel, criminal justice personnel, community development workers, homelessness services workers or anyone who is interested in helping people to make positive change in their circumstances or behaviour.

Course Aims and Objectives
This course aims:
  • To introduce you to a range of MI skills necessary to promote change talk
  • To teach you to manage client sustain talk and discord (resistance)
  • To explore a range of skills, exercises and techniques useful for evoking hope and confidence
  • To develop techniques for strengthening client confidence
  • To enable you to acquire the skills necessary to move from evoking to change planning
  • To explore a useful framework for delivering MI interventions
  • To teach you the skills necessary to use MI in brief interventions

Expected Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, participants will demonstrate:
  • An awareness of the advanced concepts of Motivational Interviewing
  • A range of skills for promoting discrepancy with clients concerning behaviour change
  • An ability to resolve client ambivalence and move towards positive behaviour change
  • A sound knowledge of the strategies needed to promote and reinforce change talk
  • A range of skills for dealing with sustain talk, discord and client resistance
  • A confidence in promoting and sustaining client commitment for change
  • Confidence in the ability to jointly develop client change plans
  • An awareness of a useful framework for delivering MI interventions
  • A range of skills necessary for using MI in brief interventions 


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