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Training Activities and Resources
This is the training resource utilized by the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers at their Training for New Trainers.
Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook, David B. Rosengren.
Strategies for Training Counselors in Evidence-Based Treatments (Martino, 2010) (pdf)
Are They Ready? (doc)
A tool for trainers to increase staff comprehension and skill in listening for readiness to change.
Stuck in the Middle with You. (doc)
This exercise will enhance using summaries to transition the conversation toward change and to practice developing summaries.
So What’s Next? (doc)
This activity helps teach the use of key questions.
Simple and Complex Reflections. (doc)
An exercise to provide trainees practice using sustained simple and complex reflections.
Transcripts of MI Videos
The following segments are from the CASAA 1998 MI Video Series. Some were transcribed by CASAA and some were transcribed by Deborah Van Horn. Reading transcripts and/or watching skilled clinicians practicing MI can be an excellent way of learning the skills and for supervisors to assist their staff in seeing the MI approach at work.
The first two demonstrations (“Jim the Rounder” and “Ponytail John” contain both uncoded transcripts as well as coded versions using the MITI (Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity) rating system.
"Jim the Rounder" - initial interview with a client referred after a drinking and driving charge
"Ponytail John" - initial interview with a client referred after a positive drug screen at work
(Tape B Phase I Part 2) Uncoded - Coded
Decisional balance discussion- the good things and the not-so-good things about drinking
(Tape/Part B, Chapter 6, Scene 4)
Importance and confidence rulers - brief intervention with a smoker in primary care
(Tape/Part E, Chapter 4, Scene 7)
Reflective responses to resistance - very brief examples (Tape/Part C, Chapter 2, Scenes 2, 4, and 6)
Providing normative feedback - snippets from start and end of a session
(Tape/Part D, Chapter 2, selected scenes)
Elicit-provide-elicit 1 - providing information to increasing importance of change (Tape/Part D, Chapter 4)
Elicit-provide-elicit 2 - providing information to enhance commitment for change (Tape/Part D, Chapter 5)