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

Marya Wright, ASW

Training Description

Attendees will gain a basic understanding of the spirit of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and ways to implement it with multi-system-involved youth and families. Participants will learn practical ways to implement MI skills into their current work to collaborate with youth and families, how to engage youth and families’ current motivation to change a particular behavior, and how to use MI Open-ended Questions, Affirmations, and Reframing/Reflections (OARS) to further enhance or consolidate the client’s level of motivation. This training has many activities, handouts, and videos to support all learning styles.

Learning Objective

• Gain an understanding of the general concepts of MI;

• Synthesize the spirit of MI in your work and dealings with system involved youth and others and identify and explain the four processes of MI; and