MI Coaching Group
Fri, Apr 05
|Online via Zoom
Practice your MI skills with a small group of other learners while receiving coaching and feedback from a MINT trainer. Pay what you can with a recommended price of $25 and a minimum price of $10.
Time & Location
Apr 05, 2024, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM MDT
Online via Zoom
About the Event
Join Alicia Shiver, MA, LMHC, LADAC, and MINT member and others as we review and practice motivational interviewing skills! There will be no more than 8 people in each group to ensure that participants have an opportunity for direct observation and feedback.
Earn 1.5 CE hours
Pay what you can with a recommended price of $25 and a minimum price of $10.
Why coaching?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) has become a gold-standard communication style used in behavioral health and medical settings, but do people who are trained actually become proficient in MI after a standard two-day class? The answer to this question is a resounding “no”. Although participants in an introductory workshop often report feeling confident in their new MI skills, changes in practice behavior are usually modest at best (Miller & Mount, 2001) and quickly diminish after training if nothing more is done to consolidate them (Miller, et al., 2004; Schwalbe, et al., 2014). Simply providing continuing education workshops can thus be a waste of time and resources if it does not improve client care.
As in learning most any complex skill, what is needed after initial training is ongoing practice with some feedback and coaching (Hall, Staiger, Simpson, Best, & Lubman, 2015; Miller & Mount, 2001; Miller & Moyers, 2006; Miller, et al., 2004; Schwalbe, et al.,2014). Happily, even a relatively modest amount of additional feedback and coaching significantly improves the quality and maintenance of skills (Hall, et al., 2015; Miller & Moyers, 2006; Miller, et al., 2004; Schwalbe, et al., 2014). It is important that this feedback be based on direct observation since self-report is not an accurate depiction of an interaction and the MI skills used (Miller & Mount, 2001). Imagine piano students merely telling their teacher how well they have been playing. This is a good analogy for teaching a complex behavioral intervention without directly observing it. This makes the difference between learning about MI and actually being able to deliver it.
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