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 43
- Certificate No
- 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 43
- Certificate No
- Assessments Self
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Veera Mookerjee
Motivational Interviewing
Loved it as always...The flow of the information is so great, it helps in understanding the concept and the urge to try it, use it and see the results come up. The you tube videos were very helpful in seeing the action happening. Just awesome!!