Description
December 2, 4, 9, & 11, 2025 | 12:00-3:00pm | 12 Contact Hours | Zoom
Description:
This learning opportunity provides learners with an introduction to Motivational interviewing and focuses on the spirit, techniques and key principles of holding a Motivational Interviewing conversation. This learning opportunity is highly experiential, and learners will participate in exercises designed to illustrate the concepts described and will be given the opportunity to discuss their experience of those exercises. The goal of this learning opportunity is for attendees to feel sufficiently familiar with motivational interviewing and to begin utilizing and embracing it in their day-to-day interactions with the people who are served by their agencies.
Objectives:
– Establish basic knowledge and familiarity with the concepts and practice of motivational interviewing
– Familiarity with the skills necessary to employ motivational interviewing with clients
– Practice motivational interviewing skills
Audience:
Behavioral health professionals
Presenter:
Stephen R. Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS is a storyteller, trainer, therapist and author. He maintains a compassion-focused practice in Portland, Maine and facilitates a variety of mutual aid support groups. A member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2003, he became a Certified MINT Trainer in 2019. He is the co-founder of Agape, Inc. which supports the Men’s Resource Center of Southern Maine, Dignity for People Using Opiates, and InnerEdge Counseling. He has been a MIA-STEP trainer (Motivational Interviewing Assessment; Supervisor Training Program) for the New England ATTC since 2007. Stephen has also been MITI-trained (Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity) and has over 100 hours of training in Motivational Interviewing. Stephen provides coaching and training domestically and internationally as well as supervising a coding/coaching laboratory and simulation training lab for Motivational Interviewing.
Contact hours:
12 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
12 contact hours for drug and alcohol counselors. This course has been approved by CCSME, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 12 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712. CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
12 Category I contact hours for Maine psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Maine Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
12 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
