COE: Motivational Interviewing Refresher

September 6, 2023

The activity will provide the COE healthcare team a refresher in Motivational Interviewing to allow them to talk to their patients in a way that encourages the patient's own abilities to change and provides for partnership in the decision making.

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. Change Talk and Sustain Talk
    1. Change talk
      1. Definition
      2. Preparatory change talk
      3. Mobilizing change talk
    2. Sustain talk
      1. Defined
    3. Change talk v/s sustain talk
    4. Practice listening for and using change talk
  4. 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
  5. Discussion
  6. Questions

Target Audience

Nurse

Physician

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Define motivational interviewing (MI) and describe the MI spirit.

• Describe the change process.

• List the steps in the POLAR*S model and describe the connection of the POLAR*S model to MI.

• Apply the POLAR*S model to common client scenarios.

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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: 
09/06/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2023
Event starts: 
09/06/2023 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
09/06/2023 - 1:30pm EDT
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The activity will provide the COE healthcare team a refresher in Motivational Interviewing to allow them to talk to their patients in a way that encourages the patient's own abilities to change and provides for partnership in the decision making.

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. Change Talk and Sustain Talk
    1. Change talk
      1. Definition
      2. Preparatory change talk
      3. Mobilizing change talk
    2. Sustain talk
      1. Defined
    3. Change talk v/s sustain talk
    4. Practice listening for and using change talk
  4. 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
  5. Discussion
  6. Questions
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Erin Seger MPH, MCHES

Julie Brewer, MSW, MPH

In 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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