Motivational Interviewing: Decrease Burnout & Improve Motivation in the Face of Ambivalence

Length
1 hour

CE Credit
Not available

Recorded
March 4, 2022

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is often thought of as a niche skill only applied in certain specialty areas when very specific behavioral change is necessary, but patients are having a hard time finding motivation to make that change. However, this presentation will be focused less on specific application of this therapeutic tool. It is more focused on empowering clinicians through discussion about how the overarching spirit of MI is applicable to any client in any setting, as a way to increase the clinician’s compassion for their patients, reduce provider burnout with challenging clients, and improve therapeutic outcomes by teaming up with ambivalent clients rather than working against them. 

Training Options

There are several ways to learn from this training. You can either watch the recording for free and also have the slides available to download. 

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Follow along with the recording by downloading the presentation slides personal use.

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About This Training

This presentation hopes to spread awareness of MI as an inherently person-centered tool that any provider can use to augment and enhance any other type of therapy they already utilize, and to provide practical philosophies from the spirit of MI that psychologists can adopt in their prospective settings.

This Presentation Will Discuss: 

  1. A broad overview of the MI “mindset and heartset,” AKA the spirit that underlies it all
  2. A description of the experiential and behavioral components of each MI spirit with
    examples
  3. A discussion about how the spirit of MI is transdiagnostic and transtheoretical, and
    how it can be applied in nearly every therapeutic setting.
  4. An invitation to allow the spirit of MI to decrease the level of burn-out you might feel

About the Presenter

Carl Sallee, Psy.D. is a postdoctoral resident and licensed clinical psychologist of the Anxiety/Mood the Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Assessment/Testing programs at UCEBT. Carl has a background in Third wave Cognitive Behavioral Therapies, Motivational Interviewing, Rogerian Person-Centered psychotherapy, and PTSD treatment.

Carl has a genuine belief that true empathy, validation, and unconditional positive regard for a person can help decrease any barriers to necessary changes and increase compassion and connection not only with clients, but in the world. He hopes to share this belief and hope with other clinicians during a historical context where compassion and empathy fatigue is a serious threat to burnout, and when we and our clients are likely in more pain than the world has experienced in the recent past.

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References

Hettema, J., Steele, J., & Miller, W. R. (2005). Motivational interviewing. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology , 1 , 91–111 ●

Miller, & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition. Guilford Publications.

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