Workshop: Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
The course integrates Prochaska and DiClemente’s stages of change model with Miller and Rollnik’s motivational interviewing principles. Motivational interviewing consists of a set of formalized theory-based and empirically evaluated interpersonal communication techniques designed to help your clients identify and acknowledge self-defeating behaviours and to move toward stopping them. The program will help mental health professionals and community workers become familiar with techniques that will increase the likelihood that clients will successfully follow a course of action toward change.
You will learn:
- To understand Prochaska and DiClemente’s stages of change model and its implications for the work of the counsellor
- To understand Miller and Rollnick’s motivational interviewing principles
- To learn how to integrate stages of change and motivational interviewing into a cohesive approach to help and support behaviour change
- To understand the various counsellor skills and interpersonal techniques needed at each stage o change.
- To improve skills in the identification and assessment of the client’s stage of change
Dr. Maya Obadia is a MINT certified Motivational Interviewing Trainer with extensive experience teaching Motivational Interviewing, Behaviour Change, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to a variety of audiences in a health and social services perspective. She received her PhD and MSc from the Institute of Medical Science at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and has completed clinical, teaching and research training at The Hospital for Sick Children, and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto Ontario. Dr. Obadia also teaches both research methodology and health behaviour change to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Toronto. She has been involved with many research studies looking at how to help people with chronic disease across the lifespan achieve health behaviour change. Specifically, her research focuses on helping patients adopt healthy behaviours post cancer treatments that are appropriate for longevity and future disease prevention. Dr. Obadia also has an active private practice in the same field.