ASAM Motivational Interviewing Mini Courses

These mini courses will give you opportunities to practice skills motivational interviewing (MI) skills in a fully online setting. Learn how to employ these skills in your clinical settings. 

What You'll Learn

After taking this course, learners will be able to:

• Articulate and enact the spirit of Motivational Interviewing (MI) 
• Identify the core features of MI congruent interactions 
• Recognize change talk and apply the basic MI skills of open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries to selectively reinforce change talk 
• Pursue further practice and training opportunities in the skills of MI beyond this course 
• Organize clinical communications attending to the four foundational processes of MI (engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning) 

Check out this Introduction Video!