Live Event

Motivational Interviewing Basics: Helping People Change and Grow

Fri, Feb 21st, 2025

11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time

$67

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Event Details

Fri, Feb 21st, 2025

11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time

(8:00am – 11:15am US Pacific Time)

3 CE Hours

Profession Group

Behavioral Health

About the Event

Motivational Interviewing is an evidenced-based practice that began as a method for behavioral health counselors and psychotherapists to help people change. It is now used internationally in a wide variety of professions to help others achieve goals that are important and meaningful to them. Motivational Interviewing is a way of being with those you seek to serve and uses many approaches to help clients move toward change and growth. In this presentation, the practitioner will learn and hone Motivational Interviewing skills that can be used to enhance the practitioner and client relationship thus helping clients move toward positive behavior change.

Live Event This is a live online event. It will be conducted via Zoom Webinar.

Live Event Instructor

Christie Turner, NCC, LCADC, LPCC-S, CCS

Christie Turner is a National Certified Counselor, a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Supervisor, and a Certified Clinical Supervisor in the state of Kentucky. In October 2023, Christie traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark and attended 3 days of training to become a member of MINT, the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. She has worked for Kentucky River Community Care, Inc. for 25 years in various roles and is currently a clinical supervisor, trainer, and consultant. Her favorite evidenced-based practice is Motivational Interviewing as it has personally changed her life and the lives of many others she has worked with over the years. Christie resides in Booneville, KY with her husband and two dogs. She loves to read, travel, walk, and study research on how people change. Christie believes we all possess what we need to change our lives and live up to our full potential. It just takes one caring individual to help us realize this.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

1 State the 4 Elements of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and how they are used to enhance the client relationship.
2 List the 4 Tasks of Motivational Interviewing and how they are used to move people toward positive behavior change.
3 Identify the 7 types of Change Talk and how they are used to move clients forward in the change process.
4 Explain at least 3 ways they can structure their Motivational Interviewing sessions for success.

Disclosure to Learners

CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME's Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity – including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests).

The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity's planners, faculty, and the reviewer:

Planners and Reviewers

The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

Faculty

There are no known relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Commercial support

There is no commercial support for this distance-learning course.

Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00-11:15am: What is Motivational Interviewing?

11:15-11:45am: Using the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing to Enhance the Client Relationship

11:45-12:30pm: The 4 Tasks of Motivational Interviewing--Helping People Move Toward Meaningful Change

12:30-12:45pm: Break

12:45pm-1:30pm: What is Change Talk? Learning How to Identifying Change Talk and Using it to Help Move Clients Forward in the Change Process

1:30-2:05pm: Putting it all Together--Setting-Up Your Motivational Interviewing Sessions for Success!

2:05-2:15pm: Questions & Closing

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