Motivational Interviewing Advanced Training

Motivational Interviewing (MI) has become a gold-standard communication style used in behavioral health, medical, and judicial settings. This Motivational Interviewing Advanced Training is designed to offer opportunities for continued learning and practice by focusing on skill-building through practice and feedback.

Full list of learning objectives is below

Participants who complete the full 7-hour training will earn 6 Social Work CEUs, no partial credit permitted.

This training is for CYFD Family Services Bureau Staff and others invited by CYFD. 

Details

Virtual Training

1 full day (available choices in registration form )
9:00am-4:00pm
Please arrive 10 minutes early, training will start promptly

Trainers:
Alicia Shiver, LPCC & Lindsay Worth, LMHC, Motivational Interviewing Training Center (MITC)

Alicia Shiver is a neurodivergent Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor (LADAC) and Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New Mexico. She has clinical experience working with patients and staff in primary care, dialysis clinics, correctional facilities, hospital emergency rooms, outpatient community mental health centers, and medication-assisted treatment. She was first introduced to MI in 2010 and has since stayed active in the MI through research, clinical applications, coding and training/coaching. Her professional interests include motivational interviewing, public health, harm reduction, neurodiversity, and community-based participatory research.

Lindsay Worth is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and has worked in mental health and addictions research at the University of New Mexico for 24 years.  She has worked in a number of settings including prisons, schools, treatments centers, and tele-health environments and is currently involved with projects in psychedelic and stimulation research.  She also spends much of her time training, coaching, and coding in Motivational Interviewing.

• Cultivating Change Talk
• Softening Sustain Talk
• Complex Reflections and Affirmations
• MI Coding and Feedback
• Implementation
• Deliberate Practice and Community Learning Groups

This training brought to you through funding from the Children Youth and Families Department, Children's Behavioral Health Services.