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This course will examine different motivational enhancement strategies and their impact on a person’s ability to create positive, sustainable change in relation to hurtles and barriers to education, employment and well-being. Content will also address high risks including addictions, substance abuse, mental health and rationalizing through ineffective approaches. Through a motivational interviewing framework, practitioners will learn how best to support clients through their own internal processes and intrinsic motivators for change.
Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Define ineffective and effective approaches to Motivational Enhancement
- Understand the basics of Motivational Interviewing Principles
- Learn the Principles of Change on a Motivational Enhancement Framework
- Develop strategies (therapeutic alliance, extra-therapeutic, techniques and other common variables) to implement collaborative change and understand the efficacies of each
About the presenter:
Justin Watts PhD. NCC, CRC LPC -Associate is an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Health Services at the University of North Texas. He teaches coursework in Substance Use Counseling, Trauma and Crisis Intervention and Group Counseling. His research agenda focuses on child-maltreatment and it’s impact on psychosocial development across the lifespan, and how these early experiences encourage the development of negative coping mechanisms and post-traumatic stress. Recent research has focused on childhood psychological abuse and its impact on young adults’ mental health.
