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Essential Motivational Interviewing Skills

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Motivational Interviewing provides a set of pragmatic strategies to facilitate behaviour change, helping to overcome resistance in clients and guide them towards change. It is a client centred approach designed to explore and resolve ambivalence. Originally developed to help people change addictive behaviours, it can be applied to any area of behaviour change.

This 2 day ‘hands on’ course is aimed at workers in a range of settings. It can help those who wish to increase their potential for bringing about positive change in people they work with. It will provide participants with the key skills of Motivational Interviewing and enhance their confidence.

Course Content

  • The spirit and principles underlying Motivational Interviewing (MI)
  • To introduce the keytechniques of MI
  • The concept of motivation and how it relates to behavioural change
  • Skills for assessing and matching interventions to readiness to change
  • How to engage people and deal with resistance
  • Developing self-efficacy
  • How to negotiate action steps

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Working with Problematic Alcohol Users

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There has been increasing concern about the harm done by this legal drug; with growing media interest in its health and social impact. There are common misunderstandings around what constitutes ‘problem drinking’ and what just ‘social lubrication’ is. This course aims to raise awareness of the important issues and to consider what the recent, evidence based interventions can do to actively involve people who have or may develop problems with alcohol.

This one day course is aimed at those who need to have a working knowledge of how to use a person centred, collaborative approach to helping clients understand alcohol, its effects and the treatment options available. It will centre on skills to engage clients towards change and to help prevent relapse.

Course content includes

  • The social context of alcohol and potential harms
  • Physical and psychological effects (including problems associated with withdrawal)
  • Skills and strategies for opportunistic brief interventions, dealing with ambivalence and resistance
  • Principles of assessment and assessment tools
  • Types of problem drinking
  • Models of treatment (Abstinence & Harm Reduction)
  • Medical interventions and signposting

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Alcohol Awareness

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If you have read our blogs you will notice that we do a lot of work around substance misuse. This 1 day course is designed to look at the complex issues around what constitutes harm and patterns of alcohol misuse. We will also consider some practical strategies in terms of working with people who may or may not see their alcohol use as a problem. This is a useful introduction which then will provide an opportunity for further training in areas such as how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Motivational Interviewing may add to our work in substance misuse.

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Over the years we came across lots of people who resonated with some of our ideas. So we decided to find a way to continue our dialogue.

A growing community of people have been coming to the same conclusions: That having more ‘things’ does not correlate well with fulfilment. Instead mindful living, positive relationships and being involved in activities that contribute to the well-being of others seem to help us feel better about ourselves and the world.

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