Motivational Interviewing: Finding Our Resilience
(4- Continuing Education Hours)

Course Description
Motivational Interviewing: Finding Our Resilience provides dynamic approaches to engage clients and inspire sustainable lifestyle change. Through stimulating self-reflection, clients will be able to recognize common ‘pit-falls’ and unhelpful thinking styles that can impede their personal growth. Through integrating case vignettes and evidence-based Motivational Interviewing techniques, Practitioners will learn ways to work through patient ambivalence and resistance. Ultimately, Practitioners will enhance their clinical skills, which can be applied to a realm of treatment interventions targeting health behavior changes, not limited to addictions and mental health disorders.
Course Title: Motivational Interviewing: Finding Our Resilience
Instructor: Trélan Nicole Holder, MS, LCSW
Contact Hours/CEUs: 4-Hours
Format: Online Self-Study Course (Text-based Readings and Videos)
Process: Register and pay for course. Read content online. Pass online post-test and print certificate of completion. Registrants can access course for 2 years from date of registration.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply the Pillars of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Acquire a Skillful Approach to MI
- Explore Patients’ Values and Guiding Philosophies
- Integrate MI in facilitating Health Behavior Changes
- Apply MI to Medication Adherence
- Integrate a MI approach to Addictions and Mental Health Disorders
- Work with Patient Ambivalence
- Manage Patient Resistance and Discord
Course Features
- Lectures 32
- Quizzes 6
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 8
- Assessments Self
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Module 1: Course Overview and Pre-Test
Course Description, Learning Objectives, Pre-Test
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Module 2: The Foundation of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Pioneers of MI, Skillful Approaches to MI, Stages-of-Change
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Module 3: The Principles of Motivational Interviewing
The Four Pillars of Motivational Interviewing, Working with Ambivalence and Resistance
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Module 4: The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
Activating Elements, Change Talk, MI Approaches to Addictions
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Module 5: Health Behavioral Changes
MI Approaches to Medication Adherence, MI Approaches to Managing Diabetes and Depression
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Module 6: Resources, References, Course Survey & Post-Test
Glossary of MI Terminology, Case Studies- The Collaborative and The Resistant Patient
Course Features
- Lectures 32
- Quizzes 6
- Duration 50 hours
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 8
- Assessments Self