January 20 - 24, 2025 Online

Cohort # 1 live session on Zoom January 30 - 31, 2025, OR

Cohort #2 live session on Zoom February 6 -7, 2025

Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered collaborative style of conversation designed to strengthen a person’s motivation for and commitment to change. MI is counselor-directed in that the counselor is skilled at managing ambivalence, eliciting change-talk and honoring the client’s autonomy about taking the next step toward a commonly agreed upon goal (Miller & Rollnick, 2010). Over 200 studies to date have demonstrated the effectiveness of the model at increasing client engagement, retention, compliance and improving treatment outcomes. The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has identified MI as a best practice within the addiction treatment field.

In this hybrid course you will be introduced to the concepts and tenets of Motivational Interviewing during the one-week didactic portion of class, worth 7 hours. Then the following week you will meet for in-person instruction for two days (14 hours) of practice with our expert Motivational Interviewing instructor via Zoom.  Satisfactory completion of both modules is required to pass the course.