Fundamental Principals of Motivational Interviewing  

October 24 2019
Choose from 9am-Noon OR 1-4pm
​Tri-County Board Training Room
​1100 Wayne St. Suite 4000, Troy

Three (3) hours of CEUs are available for counselors, social workers and marriage and family therapists. Cost is $30 per person.

​This training is offered at no charge to staff of agencies under contract with the Tri-County Board of Recovery and Mental Health Services (Miami, Darke, Shelby). 

​If you are registering one or more attendees from an agency NOT under contract with the Tri-County Board and wish to be invoiced, please contact Beth Adkins for procedure and registration code. 

​Each attendee must be registered individually.

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This three hour training will focus on teaching the fundamental principals of motivational interviewing. Participants will obtain many practical tools and techniques to work with clients with ambivalence to change. Practical application to case examples will be presented as well as time for questions and applications to participants cases that they may ask about.  
  • Hour 1- Participants will obtain tools and techniques from the motivational interviewing model to use with clients and families that they may consider “resistant”
  • Hour 2- Participants will be given case examples on how to use the techniques in clinical settings
  • Hour 3- Participants will practice these techniques on their own cases with questions to the presenter and exercises with each other. 
 
Jennifer Haywood, LISW-S, LICDC-CS has been a social worker and addictions specialist for 23 years.  She has had a variety of workplace experiences in the mental health and substance abuse agency settings that have included supervising an adolescent drug and alcohol program, working as a therapist in various rehab settings, and building programs for drug and alcohol clients.  She has worked at The Ohio State University as a full time adjunct professor in the social work program since 2003, and has been doing trainings in various settings since 1998, specializing in addictions, women and addictions, chronic pain and addictions, motivational interviewing, ethics, supervision and diagnosis.  She currently supervises social workers in her private practice in the Worthington, Ohio areas, and sees about 15 clients per week herself in the areas of mental health and addictions.