Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (Fully Accredited)

Introduction and welcome to the course.  Brief overview of the course and what is covered.

In this brief task, you are asked to have a think about what MI is and what you hope to achieve throughout this course.

This video explains the acronym we work by in Motivational Interviewing: RULE.

Here we delve a bit more deeply into what MI is and is not.  The nature of the supportive relationship in MI and the type of people we work with in using MI techniques.

Here we explore some of the many benefits of using and learning about Motivational interviewing.  It is used in a wide range of settings, but one thing remains common, MI helps people remove barriers to change and progress.

In this lecture we explore the nature of change, how does change happen? when does it happen? what help and support might people need to implement and maintain change?

According to Prochaska and Diclemente, we pass through 4 main stages when considering and making change.  This video explains each of those stages.  begin here, to think about how you might recognise change readiness in a client? or yourself perhaps?

A comprehensive description of the stages of change and how we need to work appropriately with each stage that the client is at.

More info about how we work with the client, depending on where they are at with change

There are a range of unhelpful thoughts about change, progress and development that naturally, create obstacles to our progress (or the progress of people we are working with).  This video explores some of those unhelpful thoughts.

This term comes up a lot in Motivational Interviewing.  We explore Ambivalence, where there is a discrepancy between, for example, the change and progress we want to make and some other aspect of our life.

More info here about the nature of Motivational Interviewing, how it works, how it doesn't work, the nature of the relationship between the peron providing MI and the client.

Here we explore the nature of the collaborative partnership in Motivational Interviewing.  We are not seeking to impose or push people into making changes, but rather we work in partnership with the client, just like dancing!

In order to work constructively with the client, we need to begin to understand their internal world.  This doesn't mean we start analysing them, but it means that gradually, throughout the sessions, we begin to find out what motivates them, what ahs demotivated them in the past, how best we can support and help to motivate them etc.

We adhere to 4 guiding principles in the provision of Motivational Interviewing.  This lecture focuses on those principles and explains them and why we try and adhere to them.

Unconditional positive regard is a term taken from client centred therapy and is used in Motivational Interviewing.  In this video we explore the meaning of that term and how we need to work from the standpoint of this and crucially, to have compassion for the client and their struggle with change.

Clients will often experience fear and anxiety about change that leads them to resist within sessions.  This video explains the approach we take with resistance, we need to "roll with it" rather than be defensive against it.  Resistance is part of the whole change process and we all experience it for ourselves at some point.

This video is in the form of a podcast coincversation between 2 professionals - discussing the topics at hand.

We have to avoid being overly directive or judgemental and we need to resist the reflex where we feel the need to put the client 'right'.  This video explains the 'righting reflex'

In supporting the client through change, we need to ensure that we work in such a way as to increase self efficacy, confidence for the client.  This video begins to explain self efficacy and how we can encourage the development of it.

In this video we begin to look at the structure of MI sessions, from beginning to end.  There are a number of stages that we go through in the working relationship and its important that we go through each of the stages in order.

This is a group or individual task to encourage you to pause and reflect about changes you might like to make in your own life.

We use Evocative Questions (as opposed to Provocative) questions in MI in order to help the client consider change and how this might be planned and implemented.  This video explains how we use these questions and gives some examples.

We need to monitor these aspects within the client and how they improve during the process of providing Motivational Interviewing.  We also relate the increase ins elf efficacy etc with the increased likelihood for implementing and maintaining change.

As the client grows in confidence and self esteem for example, change talk becomes more prevalent during sessions, this indicates and increased appetite and readiness for change from the client and we must respond appropriately.

More in-depth discussion here about the role of resistance in the change process and how we can help manage this in a constructive fashion.

We need to be aware of the increasing signs that we see, informing us that client is increasingly ready for change.  We then respond appropriately, as identified in this video.

In this phase, we begin negotiating the all important plan for change, or plan of action for the client.  This video explains how and why we begin to do this at this stage.

There are several headers we often use on our plan of action with the client.  In this video, these headers are explained and you are tasked with designing your own plan of action form for use with clients.

Although relapse is a natural part of the change process, we do well to try and minimise it as far as is possible.  This video explains the nature of relapse and how we can help prevent or deal with relapse.

This brief lecture explains the outline of session form that we often use in Motivational Interviewing.

Thankyou very much for taking this introductory course in Motivational Interviewing.  Please leave feedback (hopefully positive!) and also, please do get in touch with me to ask any questions you like.  My best wishes to you.

This video is a brief promotion for one of my most popular courses on Udemy; Introduction to CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy)

Thanks so much for taking the Introduction to Motivational Interviewing.  Why not take it a step further and have a look at the Advanced Motivational Interviewing Course of mine?  Also on Udemy.  This video is the brief promotional overview of some of the things covered on the advanced course.