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Motivational Interviewing for Adolescents and Emerging Adults

Meredith Reuter, LCSW, LICSW
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This course is designed to provide a refresher of key Motivational Interviewing principles and skills. We will examine how MI skills can be used in clinical settings with adolescents and emerging adults. Participants will review OARS skills, MI Spirit, The Four Tasks, and Change and Sustain Talk. We will explore the unique biological, intellectual, and psychosocial characteristics of adolescents and emerging adults, noting that this transitional period can be rife with ambivalence about values, identity, and social fit. Learning Motivational Interviewing skills can help practitioners develop strong working relationships with adolescents and emerging adults, a population that often resists authoritarian or overly-directive approaches. In addition, MI is an evidence-based strategy for helping clients navigate ambivalence, a critical clinical task for adolescents and emerging adults as they work to figure out who they are and their places in the world.

Educational Goal

Participants will review Motivational Interviewing skills and concepts and identify specific ways MI can be utilized in clinical work with adolescents and emerging adults. Participants will engage in practice exercises to use MI skills in role-play situations focused on common clinical situations with adolescents and emerging adults.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Define the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing.

  • Define ambivalence and recognize Change Talk and Sustain Talk.

  • Define and use the OARS skills.

  • Identify key biological, psychosocial, and cognitive characteristics of adolescent development.

  • Describe specific instances where Motivational Interviewing is indicated for clinical work with adolescents and emerging adults.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Meredith Reuter, LCSW, LICSW
Meredith Reuter, LCSW, LICSW (she/her) is a seasoned Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience in the mental health and substance use disorder treatment fields. She has worked with clients across the lifespan in a number of different treatment settings, ranging from wilderness and adventure therapy to intensive outpatient treatment to therapeutic and independent schools. She currently has a private practice in Keene , New Hampshire. In addition to Meredith's clinical work, she is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. She has trained thousands of people in Motivational Interviewing, both regionally in New England and as a Motivational Interviewing trainer for Sandstone Care, a mental health and substance abuse continuum of care with locations in Colorado and the DMV area

Financially Sponsored By

  • Sandstone Care