Course Overview
This course provides an overview of the method of MI and goes beyond the definition to examine how and why MI works. It focuses on:
- The efficacy and effectiveness of MI
- The facilitative role of the spirit of the method in attending to client language about change.
- Providing information and advice in a style consistent with MI
- The four processes of MI
- The process of recognizing, evoking and responding to change talk
- Strategies for responding to discord and sustain talk
Audience
Health practitioner (all disciplines), social service workers, correctional officers, allied health care and peer support workers
Learning Objectives
- Define and critique the four-process model of MI and its relevance to patient-centered care.
- Establish therapeutic relationships with patients that are characterized by partnership, acceptance, compassion and evocation.
- Use OARS skills (open questions, affirmations, reflective statements and summaries) to identify and explore issues to be addressed in a patient encounter, including the patient’s context and preferences.
- Provide information and advice in a style consistent with MI
- Discuss skills and strategies used in the engaging, focusing, evoking and planning processes.
Course Requirements
Participants must have:
- Prior experience in counselling and clinical communication skills or possess equivalent patient care experience in order to participate (the program will not teach basic counselling and therapy skills).
- Direct patient care responsibilities with access to an appropriate work setting in which it is possible to use motivational interviewing strategies with patients virtually or face to face.
Delivery Method
Online (self-directed with virtual office hours)
This course requires you to use an internet browser, but the system does not support Microsoft Internet Explorer. Instead, use one of the following:
- Apple Safari
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
For more details, please read the browser and compatibility support page.
Accreditation
- College of Family Physicians of Canada Mainpro+ (1 credit/hour) Self Learning: 13.5 credits
- Royal College Maintenance of Certification Section 1: 13:5 hours
- American Medication Association Category 1: 13.5 credits
- European Union for Medical Specialists UEMS-EACCME®: 13.5 credits
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