Motivational Interviewing
Change Oriented Psychotherapy
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
2 CEU Credit Hours
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. • BRMC Auditorium
This FREE program will start immediately and include dinner.
Must bring your registration ticket for admission.Objectives:
- Recall five principles of motivational interviewing.
- Identify two strategies to help patients resolve their ambivalence about choices.
- Name two ways to handle patient’s resistance to change.
- Define and summarize four stages of change.
Seminar Highlights:
This topic will provide social workers with practice knowledge and skills. The seminar will focus on specific clinical skills based on the Motivational Interviewing Model. Interviewing strategies that avoid confrontation will be highlighted as well. The interventions will take into account patient’s resistance to change and ambivalence. Clinicians will also learn how to explore the pros and cons of facing change with their patients.
Dr. Feldman is the Clinical Director at Community Psychiatric Institute. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, Graduate School of Social Work. Dr. Feldman has presented more than 200 clinical seminars at hospitals and agencies on personality disorders, emotional problems, and psychotherapy techniques. In addition to his work as a psychotherapist for 25 years, he is the author of three treatment manuals, Shame Affect, Dual Diagnosis Manual, and The Psychotherapy Manual.