Introductory Workshop for Motivational Interviewing

Speaker:

John Rodolico, PhD, is the Director of Military and Veteran Consultation at McLean Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Part-Time at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rodolico is committed to using evidence-based treatments to help people with substance use disorders across the life span and his experience working with adolescent addictions spans over 30 years. His main area of research is motivational psychology and evidence-based treatments for co-occurring disorders. Dr. Rodolico also has an extensive teaching history over the past two decades, supervising clinical psychology interns, post-doctoral fellows, and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows. He has given numerous presentations, group consultations, and training on substance use disorders, motivational interviewing, and suicide prevention with military personnel.

As an Army Reservist, Dr. Rodolico was deployed twice to Iraq as the executive officer of a Combat Stress Medical Company. He is presently the deputy commander for the Massachusetts National Guard, Medical Command, where he spearheads many projects dealing with suicide, substance abuse, and resiliency.

Description:

The Motivational Interviewing approach has been researched extensively in diverse settings, including primary care, mental health, addictions, education, and facilities under the department of corrections. Continuously evolving MI strategies has necessitated ongoing education for all types of healthcare workers. This 4-hour live zoom introductory workshop is designed to help a variety of behavioral health professionals interested in learning the basic MI principles to translate that knowledge into practice. The workshop will review the four processes, spirit of MI, patient-centered communications skills, change and sustain talk, and approaches to people who are “resistant” to change. Multiple learning approaches will be used throughout the course, including didactics, video demonstrations, role-plays, and small group discussions.

Objectives:

After completing this training participants will be able to:

1. Explain a rationale for the use of motivational interviewing and appreciate its spirit
2. Describe the four processes and four skills of motivational interviewing
3. Describe common scenarios in which motivational interviewing is appropriate and where it is not
4. Use one Motivational Interviewing skill and give/receive feedback

Schedule:

• Monday, September 16, 2024: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm and
• Tuesday, September 17, 2024: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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