Using Motivational Interviewing to Resolve Fears and Enhance Compassion Motivation

15 Hours | 15 CEs

This on-demand professional training program on Using Motivational Interviewing to Explore and Resolve Fears, Blocks, and Resistances and Enhance Compassion Motivation is presented by Stan Steindl, Ph.D.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) has long been used as an adjunct to a range of interventions, including psychological treatments such as cognitive-behavioral therapy. Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) has become increasingly popular over recent years and has been found to be effective in increasing compassion and self-compassion, reducing depression, anxiety, and psychological distress, and increasing life satisfaction and happiness. One important contribution of CFT is the identification of certain inhibitors (fears, blocks, and resistances) and facilitators of compassion motivation and compassionate action. This program covers these inhibitors and facilitators and proposes MI as an important, strategic approach to assisting people to explore and resolve inhibitors and enhance compassion motivation. The program is highly experiential, helps participants develop the spirit and core skills of MI, and provide practical therapeutic strategies that can be used to assist clients of CFT further.

Furthermore, the program introduces compassion-focused approaches and the role of working with important motivational processes, fears, blocks and resistances, and facilitators of compassion. The program involves a combination of didactic presentation, demonstration via video and live role play, small group exercises, and small group role play practice. The experiential nature of the program is designed to make the learning experience as practical and transferable to clinical practice as possible.