HS165 Motivational Interviewing

This course is designed to facilitate the acquisition of motivational interviewing counseling skills as applied to addiction counseling. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a method that works on facilitating and engaging intrinsic motivation within the client in order to change behavior. MI is a goal-oriented, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.

Credits

3

Offered

Offered as needed