Building Relationships with Multi-System Involved Youth and Families: Collaboration, Engaging and Reframing

Marya Wright, ACSW

Training Description

By attending this 3-hour course, attendees will have a basic understanding of the spirit of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and ways to begin to implement it with multi-system involved youth and families. Participants will gain practical skills to begin implementation of MI skills into their current work to collaborate with youth and families. Attendees will learn how to engage youth and family’s current motivation to change a particular behavior and then learn how to use MI open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries (OARS) to further enhance or consolidate the client’s level of motivation.

Learning Objectives

• Gain an understanding of the general concepts of MI;
• Synthesize the spirit of MI in your work and dealings with others; and
• Practice OARS and plan how to use MI as a workplace tool

 

Agenda

9:00–9:30am Welcome & Introductions

9:30–9:45am Agenda, Overview, Objectives and Learning Goals

9:45–10:00am What is MI and how can we use it to collaborate

10:00–10:15am Sprint of MI to engage 

10:15–10:45am Four Processes to engage

10:45–11:00am BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

11:00–11:15am Sustain Talk, Discord, Change Talk to reframe

11:15–11:45am Open ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections & Summary’s

11:45am–12:00pm Questions/Answers, Evaluation, Closing

This course meets the qualifications for (2.75) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.