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Phil Harris
Motivational interviewing
Develop your understanding of addiction and treatment by exploring the role of drugs within society, the factors that contribute to the drug using experience, how people change and the routes to recovery. Learn what tolerance, withdrawal, addiction and dependency mean and how this relates to a clear understanding of recovery. This comprehensive overview will develop or refresh your confidence to work with drug and alcohol users.
Course aim:
- To build on current practice and provide participants with a deeper understanding of the skills and knowledge involved in motivational interviewing.
Course objectives:
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities
- Identify sub-types of pre-contemplative clients
- Describe the factors that increase initial motivation for change
- Understand the influence of the helper on motivation for change
- Develop reflective listening skills
- Deliver the motivational interviewing within the four key phases of motivational interviewing
- Understand the role of motivational interviewing within a wider process of change
Maximum group size: 18 people
Competences: HT3; NHS KSF HWB1; DANOS AI1.2012, AI2.2012
Bookable Dates
Dates available on arrangement
The Training Exchange can also create this course for you on arrangement at your workplace.
