The Pacific Southwest MHTTC is pleased to provide the final workshop of MI in April.

As we learned last year, Motivational interviewing (MI) provides us with a way to have conversations about change. The April series is an advanced level of training and focuses on the spirit of MI and using MI for youth and young adults. Viewers should have a basic familiarity or experience with this modality. If you are not familiar with MI, please see the Recordings from our 2022 Motivational Interview Series here. 

Workshop 2, Wednesday, 4/5: Building Strength and Connecting to Intuition: Motivational Interviewing and Affirmation Skills for Youth and Young Adults

In this recorded session, presenter Dr. Kristin Dempsey discusses how building strengths and affirmations helps promote self-efficacy and confidence that can fuel the change process. This session focused specifically on using affirmation with young adults (although the skills and practice are applicable with individuals of all ages).

Viewers of this video can benefit from the following learning objectives: 

• Identify at least three strength qualities that can be affirmed and supported among help seekers.
• Create at least three interventions that affirm help seeker strengths.
• Use values sorting and characteristics of successful change tools to promote strengths and competencies among help seekers.