Using Motivational Interviewing to Resolve Fears and Enhance Compassion Motivation
15 Hours | 15 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Using Motivational Interviewing to Explore and Resolve Fears, Blocks, and Resistances and Enhance Compassion Motivation is presented by Stan Steindl, Ph.D.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) has long been used as an adjunct to a range of interventions, including psychological treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) has become increasingly popular over recent years and has been found to be effective in increasing compassion and self-compassion, reducing depression, anxiety, and psychological distress, and increasing life satisfaction and happiness. One important contribution of CFT is the identification of certain inhibitors (fears, blocks, and resistances) and facilitators of compassion motivation and compassionate action. This program covers these inhibitors and facilitators and proposes MI as an important, strategic approach to assisting people to explore and resolve inhibitors and enhance compassion motivation. The program is highly experiential, helps participants develop the spirit and core skills of MI, and provide practical therapeutic strategies that can be used to assist clients of CFT further.
Furthermore, the program introduces compassion-focused approaches and the role of working with important motivational processes, fears, blocks and resistances, and facilitators of compassion. The program involves a combination of didactic presentation, demonstration via video and live role play, small group exercises, and small group role play practice. The experiential nature of the program is designed to make the learning experience as practical and transferable to clinical practice as possible.
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe the spirit, principles, and skills of motivational interviewing, and the role of MI in CFT
Describe inhibitors and facilitators to compassion and self-compassion from the point of view of the language of the client, especially in terms of notional ideas of sustain talk and change talk
Describe the importance of language in change, especially the notion of accepting and validating language around inhibitors of compassion, and gently guiding towards exploring and elaborating on language around facilitators of compassion
Describe compassion as a motivation and a commitment to engage with suffering and engage with compassionate action, as well as how to strengthen client commitment towards compassionate action
Describe the core aspects of motivational interviewing in the context of CFT, with the opportunity to take away skills and strategies to apply with clients straight away
Presented By
Stan Steindl, PhD
Dr. Stan Steindl is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice at Psychology Consultants Pty Ltd and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is also co-director of the UQ Compassionate Mind Research Group. He has over 20 years of...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Motivational Interviewing - Part 2
3. Motivational Interviewing - Part 3
4. Motivational Interviewing - Part 4
5. Motivational Interviewing - Part 5
6. Motivational Interviewing - Part 6
7. Motivational Interviewing - Part 7
8. Motivational Interviewing - Part 8
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Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.