Event Description:  This workshop will focus on understanding Motivational Interviewing as a therapeutic style for helping individuals make changes in their lives. It will focus on methods for eliciting clients’ own reasons for change and strategies for helping clients work through ambivalence. This workshop will include practice in reflective listening, use of open-ended questions, affirmations, and motivational summaries, as well as combining these skills in therapeutic interactions. Ethical issues in the selection of therapeutic goals will also be examined.
NOTE: This program will meet the ethics requirements for NC Psychologists.