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Motivational Interviewing: An Introduction
In this course, you will learn about Motivational Interviewing, an intervention to help people discover their own desire and ability to make difficult changes. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a way of communicating that draws out people’s own thoughts and beliefs in order to help them address their ambivalence about making a change.
The course uses a blend of instructive information and interactive exercises to help you understand and apply its core concepts. The goal of this course is to provide addictions, behavioral health counseling, marriage and family therapy, nursing, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human service settings with the skills to define and demonstrate the core concepts of Motivational Interviewing.
Describe the overall purpose of Motivational Interviewing and how it impacts the change process.
Recall the key elements of the MI spirit and how these can support clients in the change process.
Define ambivalence, change talk, and sustain talk, and how these concepts relate to MI.
Suicide Prevention in the Acute Setting
This course will provide you with information about the numerous risk and protective factors of suicide. You will learn effective screening approaches you can use to identify elevated risk. You will also learn how to follow a positive screening with an in-depth clinical assessment, including several different models you can use to guide your assessment. The goal of this course is to provide alcohol and drug counseling, marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, and social work professionals in health and human services with skills to identify individuals at increased risk of suicide.
Recognize risk and protective factors for suicide.
Explain how to effectively screen to identify individuals at risk of suicide.
Summarize the major components of a comprehensive suicide assessment.