What’s the Problem? Advancing MI in Challenging Situations
MI is Simple, but not Easy. You might have read this in Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow, 4th Ed. (Miller & Rollnick, 2023) and perhaps you have noticed that Motivational Intervieiwng is both wonderful and challenging to apply to many real-world problems. In this hour-and-a-half webinar, we will explore some of the issues commonly encountered when using motivational interviewing and some possible solutions to these common concerns. The presenters will be demonstrating how to approach some of these hard situations–such as engaging mandated clients, being effective when time is short, evoking empowerment and avoiding the fixing reflex–using concepts and exercises from their upcoming book, What’s the Problem: Advanced Motivational Interviewing Guide for Clinicians.
Who Can Attend?
Any helping professional interested in learning more about What’s the Problem? Advancing MI in Challenging Situations! This is suitable for beginner through advanced MI learners.
After participating in this activity, learners will be able to:
- Identify at least three common challenges in motivational conversations.
- List three strategies to address common conversational challenges that occur in motivational interviewing.
Join us on September 19th from 1:00-2:30pm ET
Speaker Bio:
Kristin Dempsey
Kristin is a psychotherapist, counselor educator, and trainer in evidence-based psychotherapy practices. Kristin is a practicing licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical counselor. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings: schools, community-based organization, county mental health, training agencies, and universities and professional schools. Kristin has been training clinicians and students in motivational interviewing since 2008, and Kristin has been practicing motivational interviewing since 2001. In addition to training in motivational interviewing, Kristin trains and provides consultation for clinicians in dialectical behavior therapy, trauma informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, clinician self-care, and suicide prevention and intervention. Kristin is lecturing faculty at San Francisco State University where she teaches addictions counseling, and she is an associate professor at the Wright Institute’s Counseling Psychology program where she teaches counseling skills, developmental psychology, research-based practice, group counseling, and addiction treatment. Kristin has assisted counseling agencies with self-assessment and programmatic change, and her EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership has assisted her in providing systems-level consultation. She is the author of The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction published by New Harbinger Press in 2024. She sees clients in San Francisco and Burlingame, CA offices.
Ali Hall
Ali Hall joined the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2006 and works full-time as an independent consultant and trainer, offering services virtually as well as from Reno, NV, San Francisco, CA, and the Washington, DC areas. She has designed and facilitated several thousand Motivational Interviewing (MI) workshops for healthcare practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and professionals in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. In addition to direct training, she provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices. Ali currently serves as a Director Emeritus on the MINT Board and continues to support professional skill development activities. Her involvement in MINT includes serving on numerous committees and TNT (Training New Trainers) teams in Fort Wayne, Atlanta, Berlin, New Orleans, Warsaw, and virtual TNTs in Canada. She regularly provides MI coding and skill development coaching, coding quality assurance, research intervention design, and systems consultation for effective MI implementation. Ali is also a co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instrument, co-author of Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement, and co-author of the forthcoming What’s the Problem? A Skill Development Guide for Navigating Challenging Motivational Conversations. She completed her undergraduate studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles, graduate work in organizational behavior at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School. She is also a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional. In her spare time, Ali participates in cold-water marathon swimming events to raise funds for under-resourced children’s charities.
Course syllabus: https://d11n7da8rpqbjy.cloudfront.net/u80476/31068843_1753981648231Whats_the_problem_live_webinar_syllabus.pdf?kuid=0a67105f-adf8-4d8b-8cba-625da3e196c5-1753120338&kref=duC4xvOySjoQ
