Course Overview
This course prepares health care professionals to apply the four-process model of motivational interviewing (MI) and enhances their competence in the use of MI.
Using simulation-based strategies, the course explores the four-process model of MI, and it discusses the uses of MI, how it works and why health care professionals would want to use it.
Audience
The course is for professionals in health and social services who have direct patient care responsibilities. The audience includes professionals in these disciplines:
- Allied health
- Counselling and psychotherapy
- Criminal/Juvenile justice
- Nursing
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Social services
- Social work
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss and interpret how to use of the four processes of MI in patient consultations about change
- Establish relationships with patients that are characterized by partnership, acceptance, compassion and evocation
- Use open questions, affirmations, reflective statements, and summaries (OARS) to identify and explore issues to be addressed in a patient consultation, including the person’s context and preferences
- Provide information and advice in a style consistent with MI
- Elicit, reinforce and strengthen change talk in a style consistent with MI in patient consultation sessions
- Apply four strategies to respond to discord in a style consistent with MI in patient consultation sessions
- Analyze practice experience, identify practice gaps and apply changes to ensure performance improvement in the four processes of MI.
Certification and Accreditation
College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+® (Group Learning):
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for up to 11 Mainpro+® credits.
College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+® (Self-Learning):
This one-credit-per-hour Self-Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for up to 11 Mainpro+® credits.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Section 1
This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, approved by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. You may claim a maximum of 12.0 hours
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Section 3 (Simulation)
This activity is an Accredited Simulation Activity (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. You may claim a maximum of 10.0 hours
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA):
22 credit hours
Faculty
The course is led by CAMH staff who are members of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), an international collective of trainers in MI.
Minimum resources required
Participants require regular access to a personal computer or mobile device with a strong internet connection.
Delivery Method
This online course provides a mix of synchronous (i.e., live, scheduled) and asynchronous (i.e., anytime) learning experiences. There are three modules:
- Module 1: Foundational concepts and skills
- Module 2: The four-process model
- Module 3: Applied practice
Module 3 involves simulation-based learning and the application of MI with patients in the learner’s practice setting.
Time commitment
Learners will need to dedicate 3-4 hours per week on this course.
Related courses
This course may be completed as an elective course towards the completion of the two CAMH certificate programs:
- Concurrent disorders (CD)
- Opioid dependence treatment (ODT) certificate program
Prerequisites
- Participants must have prior experience in supportive counselling or possess equivalent patient care experience. The course will not teach basic counselling skills.
- Participants also must have direct patient care responsibilities. During the course, they will require a setting where they can use MI with patients virtually and/or in-person.
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