Professional/Short course Motivational Interviewing: Strategies for Lifestyle Changes

Content

The module syllabus typically covers:

Change processes
Overview of the stages of change model, (Prochaska and DiClemente (1998), change and motivation, engaging service users and carers in the process, joint working between Social Services and the National Health Services.

Motivational interviewing and enhancement therapy
Principles and theoretical basis for Motivational Interviewing, styles of working, the therapeutic alliance, techniques, goals and evidence base for working with addictions, eating disorders, forensic work and in mental health promotion.

Specialist applications
Working with specialist user groups: focusing interventions and techniques to applying techniques to the needs of individuals with long term conditions, lifestyle, addictions, eating disorders, forensic issues and to integrating MI within overall plans of care.

Health promotion and relapse prevention
Collaborative working, techniques of relapse prevention, maintenance and termination of contact, supervision issues, outcome measurement.

Learning and Teaching

A variety of approaches will be used which will include:

• Formative practice motivational interviewing (MI) skills
• Use of Motivational Interviewing roleplay videos to support theory and practice
• Seminars
• Enquiry-based learning and case-based learning

Those learning outcomes not individually mapped to the module assessment will be assessed formatively within the module delivery.

Assessment

At level 6 (undergraduate level):

A live practical assessment of Motivational Interviewing Strategies which will involve standardised patients or facilitators role playing a client with a problem that requires a behavioural change. You will need to demonstrate and apply MI skills in response to the presenting problem for a duration of 15 minutes demonstrating core communication strategies and eliciting and responding to change talk.

Plus a 1,500-word evidence based critical reflective assessment which will critically evaluate the underpinning principles and theory of motivational interviewing and your application to working with a clinical example of behaviour change. It will consider service innovation and personal development.

At level 7 (Masters level):

A live practical assessment of Motivational Interviewing Strategies which will involve standardised patients or facilitators role playing a client with a problem that requires a behavioural change. You will demonstrate and apply MI skills in response to the presenting problem for a duration of 15 minutes demonstrating core communication strategies and eliciting and responding to change talk.

Plus a 1,500 word evidence based critical reflective assessment which will critically evaluate the underpinning principles and theory of motivational interviewing and your application to working with a clinical example of behaviour change. It will consider service innovation and personal development.