HSER 600 Motivational Interviewing - Brief Interventions and Support Strategies Workshop

School of Health and Human Services

HSER 600 Motivational Interviewing - Brief Interventions and Support Strategies. This 12-hour lecture format exponential workshop is designed to provide practitioners and students with basic Motivational Interviewing Skills in order to enhance the effectiveness of their work with both mental health, addiction and concurrent conditions in a variety of settings. Motivational Interviewing is a directive, clients centered counseling style for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. It is both client-centered and goal-directed, and complements most theoretical approaches and styles in the helping professions.

Prerequisites: HS Certificate or Instructor's permission.

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Students who would like an academic accommodation and who have a documented disability should contact Accessibility Services, if they have not already done so.

Transfer Agreements

Course to Course transfer – YesBlock Transfer – Nobctransferguide.ca
Course Details
Total number of weeks2 days
Total Credits0.00
Total Hours12
Typical hours per week breakdown
Lecture12

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

  1. Identify the core principles and theoretical bases of motivational interviewing.
  2. Demonstrate familiarity with the use of the following specific skills of motivational interviewing: • open-ended questions • affirmation and validation techniques • reflection • summarizing • eliciting self-motivational statements • positive management of resistance
  3. Demonstrate competency in self-analysis and peer support within the context of motivational interviewing.
  4. Identify and discuss issues in relation to the integration of motivational strategies into the work/practice environment.

Grading Table

Grade Description
AAV ABOVE AVERAGE -The student has mastered all or most course objectives/requirements in a minimum time frame and has exemplified good work and study habits.
COM COMPLETE – denotes that the student has mastered a satisfactory number of course objectives/requirements in a non-credit course
CRG CREDIT GRANTED - denotes that the student performance was satisfactory in a credit course.
NCG NO CREDIT GRANTED - denotes that the student performance was unsatisfactory.
PCG PARTIAL CREDIT GRANTED – denotes that the student has successfully completed a portion of the course objectives in a credit course.

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Disclaimer

Information contained in this course outline is correct at the time of publication. Content of the course is revised on an ongoing basis to ensure relevance to changing educational, employment and market needs. The instructor will endeavor to provide notice of changes to students as soon as possible. The instructor reserves the right to add or delete material from courses.