Motivational Interviewing

This webinar will highlight how motivational interviewing can be used with patients in order to create a therapeutic win-win situation. We will examine the similarities and differences between motivational interviewing and traditional therapy and provide a few simple tools that clinicians can easily integrate into their repertoire:

Learning objectives:

• Identify appropriate motivational strategies for each stage of change and be familiar with applications of motivational approaches and specific treatment settings.
• Identify the four types of client resistance.
• Identify the assumptions about the nature of motivation and the five elements of motivational approaches.
• Identify the assumptions upon which motivational interviewing is a counseling style is based, and explain the seven principles underlying the stepped care approach to delivering treatment services.
• Be familiar with ways of measuring self-efficacy, readiness for change, decisional balance saying, motivations, and goals and values.

About the Speaker(s):

Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LMHC, CRC, NCC
Director
FRN Outpatient Nashville

Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD, LPC, NCC, has worked in community mental health since 1991, has her doctorate in counseling and education, and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, and Nationally Certified Counselor. Dr. Snipes started as a line clinician in a drug-court substance abuse treatment program, and worked her way up to a senior program director over dual-disorders, multilevel treatment facilities in three counties. During her time in community behavioral health,

Dr. Snipes saw her clinics through JCAHO and CARF accreditation surveys, successfully wrote applications for more than $2 million in state and federal grants, and served as the lead trainer for the dual-disorders programs in 13 counties. In addition, Dr. Snipes has developed and taught online and face-to-face courses for the University of Florida, and recently completed her first book for publication—Multidimensional Brief Solution Focused Counseling with Co-Occurring Disorders (Recovery Toolbox Publishing, in-press).

Currently she is the Executive Director of the Foundations Nashville Intensive Outpatient Program for Foundations Recovery Network.