Date: Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Time: 11:00 am – 2:15 pm (EDT)

To be eligible for a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

Please note: This training is not eligible for CE credits. This training will be interactive and involve break-out discussions and exercises with fellow attendees, all in the style and spirit of Motivational Interviewing.

Online Training Description:

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered counseling method for exploring how and why a person might change and is based upon a “guiding” style involving empathy and compassion. Its principles and techniques match those known to produce positive outcomes with individuals who sexually abuse (e.g., Marshall, 2005). MI can be very useful for helping adolescents who are ambivalent about change and about engaging in treatment. It can be helpful in constructing treatment plans, exploring how these clients might feel two ways about engaging in treatment and making changes in their lives. MI can also assist in understanding what is personally meaningful and relevant to people in the wake of involvement with the legal and child welfare systems.

After a brief overview, this training explores strategies for identifying and exploring client goals that may not seem evident, particularly among those who are not fully engaged in treatment. It reviews four micro-skills and specific techniques involving scaling questions and options menus for engaging clients and focusing on personally meaningful and relevant goals. It reviews the less-obvious ways that clients indicate that they are considering making changes to their lives and offers skills for strengthening commitment to treatment goals.

This training will be interactive and involve break-out discussions and exercises, all in the style and spirit of MI.

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Training topics include:
1) Exploring ambivalence in key areas of sexual abuse-specific treatment as a step towards strengthening motivation to change
2) Eliciting internal motivation to make difficult changes
3) Reflective listening skills that help clients find their own reasons to participate in treatment
4) Providing feedback to clients, including under difficult circumstances, to facilitate treatment progress
5) Demonstrating empathy in interactions with clients who have sexually abused

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
1) Identify the four components that make up the “MI Spirit.”
2) Demonstrate the four motivational interviewing micro-skills with adolescents and young adults who have sexually abused.
3) Describe the four processes that make up MI.
4) Implement skills at eliciting “change talk” with adolescents and young adults who have sexually abused.

Three Hours of Training

The training session starts at 11:00 am Eastern Time and runs until 2:15 pm. The charge is $48. Each registration includes a certificate of attendance. To be eligible for a certificate, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

We can refund your training fee up to 24 hours prior to the start of the training.

Presenter:

David Prescott, LICSW
Director, Continuing Education Center, Safer Society

A mental health practitioner of 38 years, David Prescott is the Director of the Safer Society Continuing Education Center. He is the author and editor of 25 books in the areas of understanding and improving services to at-risk clients. He is best known for his work in the areas of understanding, assessing, and treating sexual violence and trauma.

Mr. Prescott is the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution award from the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA), the 2018 recipient of the National Adolescent Perpetration Network’s C. Henry Kempe Lifetime Achievement award, and the 2022 recipient of the Faye Honey Knopp Award from the New York State Alliance for the Prevention of Sexual Abuse and New York State ATSA. He also served as ATSA President in 2008-09. Mr. Prescott currently trains and lectures around the world. His published work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, French, Polish, and Southern Tutchone. He has served on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals.