Register Now for Advanced Motivational Interviewing Workshop, May 13
May 6, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas - An "Advanced Motivational Interviewing" workshop offered through The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work Office of Professional Development will be held May 13 from 9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. at Austin Recovery at 8402 Cross Park Drive.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a state-of-the-art, evidence-based counseling method designed for evoking intrinsic motivation for positive behavior change. Originally developed in the drug and alcohol field, MI is now being widely applied in a variety of settings, including health care, mental health, public health, and criminal justice.
This workshop will be at the advanced level and is designed for clinicians who have already received introductory training in MI. There will be an emphasis on higher level reflective listening, handling resistance, and recognizing and reinforcing "change talk." The use of MI in group settings will be discussed. This workshop will be very interactive and practice-oriented. Participants will be guided through a sequence of learning activities to further develop and refine their MI skills.
About the Presenters: Mary Marden Velasquez, Ph. D., is Professor, Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Social Work Research, and Director of the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute in the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin. Her area of specialty is the development and implementation of interventions using the Transtheoretical Model of Change and Motivational Interviewing.
Dr. Velasquez' research includes using motivational interviewing in a variety of health behavior interventions including HIV prevention, prenatal health, alcohol abuse, smoking cessation, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. A recent emphasis has been on training health care providers to use brief motivational interventions in a variety of health care settings.
Velasquez is principal investigator on several federal grants, including Project TTM, a group-based cocaine treatment study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Project CHOICES, a fetal alcohol prevention study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is an internationally recognized trainer in Motivational Interviewing and in the application of the Transtheoretical Model to health behaviors.
Nanette Stephens, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and research scientist with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, has more than 18 years of experience integrating the Transtheoretical Model and Motivational Interviewing (MI) principles and strategies in her work as a trainer, supervisor, researcher, clinician and consultant.
Dr. Stephens participated in the first Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) workshop which was conducted by William Miller and Steve Rollnick, as well as in the first Motivational Interviewing Supervisor's Training (MIST), presented by William Miller and Theresa Moyers. She was a therapist in several federally funded MI-based projects (e.g., Project MATCH, TTM Group Therapy for Cocaine, fetal alcohol syndrome prevention SUCCESS and CHOICES projects) and provided training, consultation, and coaching services for a variety of other health behavior studies and projects.
Stephens has conducted numerous MI workshops for a wide variety of agencies and programs, and her other clinical and research interests have included working with families with histories of domestic violence and child maltreatment. Her publications include journal articles and chapters on MI, substance abuse group interventions, domestic violence, services for families in battered women's shelters, and treating behavior problems in children of battered women.
Registration: $45. After May 6, $55. CEUs are available.
To register for this workshop, go to http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop Scroll down to School of Social Work Professional Development and click to go to registration site. You may also call the Office of Professional Development at 512-471-2886.
For more information, contact:
Liz Nowicki
Director, Office of Professional Development
512-471-2886
lbnowicki@mail.utexas.edu