Motivational Interviewing Skills 24/25

Target Group

This course is targeted to social care and health professionals in adults and children’s social care who work for the London Borough of Sutton.

Aim

The aims of this session are: 

• To help participants establish and develop the skills needed to facilitate and encourage change when working with complex behaviours based on statutory requirements
• To learn about the key theory, principles and philosophy underpinning a motivational approach.
• To learn about the relationship between legislation, capacity, choice and motivation.
• To understand the impact of values and beliefs on behaviour choices and changes.
• To understand what is meant by ambivalence and how to work with it.
• To understand the communication techniques aimed at eliciting behaviour change.
• To understand the barriers to communication and relationship building, and strategies that can help to overcome them.
• To understand the strategies for managing non-engagement with reluctant service users or family members.

Learning Objectives 

By attending this session, participants will have:

• An improved knowledge of the purpose and principles of motivational interviewing to maximise positive changes.
• An improved knowledge of the principles of service user choice, empowerment, safeguarding, capacity and right under the legal frameworks in children and adult social care.
• An improved knowledge of the stages of change model and how this can guide intervention selection.
• An improved knowledge about how to effectively apply motivational interviewing including rolling with resistance, helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence
• An improved knowledge about the tools for change such as scaling and decisional balance to maximise commitment to change, and setting SMART goals to support recovery outcomes.
• An improved knowledge about the skills to encourage service users to utilise their own strengths, those of their networks and services to meet their own needs.
• An improved knowledge to manage non-engagement and enable this to be a conscious choice and the documentation required in this respect.  
• An improved knowledge about how service users are supported to know how to re-engage or access services if they wish and that barriers are removed; and ensure that individuals fully understand the implications of their decisions.