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Mastering Motivational Interviewing

Mastering the Motivational Interview is a professional development course that explores the theoretical foundations and historical development of motivational interviewing, emphasising humanistic psychology for a person-centred, goal-oriented approach. In this motivational interviewing course, you will learn the core principles of motivational interviewing—collaboration, acceptance, compassion, and evocation. You will also learn to facilitate change effectively and help clients explore ambivalence and articulate their reasons for change, making your interactions more impactful.
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Study Hours
20 hours
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Course Access
12 Months

Unlock the transformative potential of motivational interviewing in your counselling, coaching, or teaching role. Mastering motivational interviewing enhances your understanding of client behaviour, improves diagnostic accuracy, and strengthens the therapeutic relationship.

Mastering the Motivational Interview is a professional development course that explores the theoretical foundations and historical development of motivational interviewing, emphasising humanistic psychology for a person-centred, goal-oriented approach.

In this motivational interviewing course, you will learn the core principles of motivational interviewing—collaboration, acceptance, compassion, and evocation. You will also learn to facilitate change effectively and help clients explore ambivalence and articulate their reasons for change, making your interactions more impactful.

You will also develop key micro-skills, such as active listening, empathy, summarising, and asking open-ended questions, and techniques for building rapport and enhancing communication. You will explore motivational interviewing for specific populations and professional settings, such as healthcare, mental health, and community services, ensuring you can adapt your skills to diverse environments.

On completion of this course, you will be equipped with practical tools for the real-world application of motivational interviewing to enhance the effectiveness of psychological assessments and the quality of therapeutic interventions.

Printed learning materials may be available free to print for this course. Requests can be made by contacting us. 

Course Structure
Unit - Mastering Motivational Interviewing

Unit 1 – Foundations of Motivational Interviewing

  • What is motivational interviewing?
  • Significance and application
  • Historical development of motivational interviewing
  • Person-centred, goal-oriented communication
  • Collaboration, acceptance, compassion and evocation

Unit 2 – Core Concepts and Principles

  • The spirit of motivational interviewing
  • Directing, guiding and following
  • Ambivalence in change
  • Righting reflex
  • Transtheoretical Model (Stages of Change)

Unit 3 – Understanding and Facilitating Change

  • The process of change
  • Importance, confidence and readiness for change
  • The change ruler
  • Sustain talk and change talk
  • Managing ambivalence and enhancing motivation

Unit 4 – Skills for Motivational Interviewing

  • Develop key micro-skills
  • Active listening
  • Empathy
  • Open-ended questions
  • Building rapport and enhancing communication
  • Helping clients explore ambivalence
  • Expressing reasons for change
  • Good/bad examples of motivational interviewing

Unit 5 – Advanced Strategies

  • Addressing sustain talk and discord
  • Reflective listening
  • Reframing
  • Fostering change talk
  • Strategies for working through resistance

Unit 6 – Practice and Application

  • Role-playing and case studies
  • Benefits of practice and role-playing
  • Key MI techniques
  • Benefits of case studies
  • Enhancing empathy
  • Practice scenarios
  • Address cultural contexts
  • Develop cultural competence
  • Integration strategies
  • Continuous learning
  • Peer support
  • Tailoring motivational interviewing to client needs
  • Setting and measuring goals

Unit 7 – Motivational Interviewing in Specialised Settings

  • Application with specific groups
  • Indigenous populations
  • Youth populations
  • Dual diagnoses/concurrent conditions
  • Healthcare settings
  • Mental health services
  • Community and social services
  • Motivational interviewing demonstrations
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Estimated Duration
20 hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% online
Assessment

Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.

Career Outcomes

Professional development for:

  • Counsellors
  • Therapists
  • Teachers
  • Coaches
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