COE Motivational Interviewing Practice Session - JHF

July 2, 2025

Members of the healthcare team will receive a concise and comprehensive refresher on motivational interviewing (MI). The purpose of this session is to refresh participants' understanding of the basics and provide an opportunity to practice skills. The session will explore the fundamental techniques that drive the MI approach, focusing on how to encourage and amplify a person’s inner drive for positive change.

Agenda:

  1. MI Basics
    1. Definition of MI
    2. Views on motivation
      1. Traditional views
      2. Modern views
    3. The spirit of MI
      1. Partnership
      2. Acceptance
      3. Compassion
      4. Evocation
    4. Practice using the spirit of MI
  2. The Change Process
    1. Philosophy of change
    2. Ambivalence as a part of the change process
      1. The role of ambivalence in conflict
      2. Addressing ambivalence
    3. Developing discrepancy
    4. The righting reflex
      1. Addressing the righting reflex
    5. Practice navigating ambivalence
  3. POLAR*S
    1. Overview and background
    2. Asking for permission
      1. Examples
    3. Open ended questions
      1. The goal of open ended questions
      2. Examples
      3. Practice
    4. Listening Reflectively
      1. Description
      2. Formatting reflections
      3. Simple reflections
      4. Complex reflections
      5. Examples
      6. Practice
    5. Affirmations
      1. Description
      2. How to craft affirmations
      3. Evoking affirmations
      4. Examples
      5. Practice
    6. Roll with Ambivalence
      1. Reminder of rolling with ambivalence
    7. Summary
      1. Description
      2. Crafting a summary
      3. Options and goal setting
      4. Examples
      5. Practice
    8. Key Takeaways
  4. Discussion
  5. Questions

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Define motivational interviewing (MI) and explain how the MI spirit guides the way COE staff talk with clients.
• Describe each step of the POLAR*S model and illustrate how these steps connect with using MI in practice.
• Apply the POLAR*S model to analyze and solve everyday client scenarios.

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
07/02/2025
Course expires: 
10/31/2025
Event starts: 
07/02/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
07/02/2025 - 1:30pm EDT
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Members of the healthcare team will receive a concise and comprehensive refresher on motivational interviewing (MI). The purpose of this session is to refresh participants' understanding of the basics and provide an opportunity to practice skills. The session will explore the fundamental techniques that drive the MI approach, focusing on how to encourage and amplify a person’s inner drive for positive change.

Agenda:

  1. MI Basics
    1. Definition of MI
    2. Views on motivation
      1. Traditional views
      2. Modern views
    3. The spirit of MI
      1. Partnership
      2. Acceptance
      3. Compassion
      4. Evocation
    4. Practice using the spirit of MI
  2. The Change Process
    1. Philosophy of change
    2. Ambivalence as a part of the change process
      1. The role of ambivalence in conflict
      2. Addressing ambivalence
    3. Developing discrepancy
    4. The righting reflex
      1. Addressing the righting reflex
    5. Practice navigating ambivalence
  3. POLAR*S
    1. Overview and background
    2. Asking for permission
      1. Examples
    3. Open ended questions
      1. The goal of open ended questions
      2. Examples
      3. Practice
    4. Listening Reflectively
      1. Description
      2. Formatting reflections
      3. Simple reflections
      4. Complex reflections
      5. Examples
      6. Practice
    5. Affirmations
      1. Description
      2. How to craft affirmations
      3. Evoking affirmations
      4. Examples
      5. Practice
    6. Roll with Ambivalence
      1. Reminder of rolling with ambivalence
    7. Summary
      1. Description
      2. Crafting a summary
      3. Options and goal setting
      4. Examples
      5. Practice
    8. Key Takeaways
  4. Discussion
  5. Questions

 

Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Elizabeth Schrage

Christine Crowell

Brian Issi

Julie Brewer, Pitt-PERU.

imageIn support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh 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 under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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