Montana Council on Problem Gambling

Spring Workshop on treating the Problem Gambler

Motivational Enhancement Therapy: Helping People to Choose to Change

Best Western GranTree Inn
Bozeman, Montana

Friday May 7, 2010

Registration 8 am

James Walsh  8:30 am - lunch

GA Speaker 1 pm - 2 pm

James Walsh 2 pm - 5:30 pm

Saturday, May 8, 2010

James Walsh 9 am - 1 pm
 

Program Number swp/lac

11 CEUs available for LCSW, LCPC, LAC

Total cost is $100.00
Friday only $60.00
Saturday only $40.00
Group discount for 5 or more $90.00

Check, money order or purchase order accepted. $25.00 cancellation fee will be charged

Program Narrrative:  Motivational Enhacement Therapy: Helping People to Choose to Change

Motivational Interviewing originally was introduced in 1991 as a model for treating addiciton disorders.  Since its introduction the scope of use of this model has broadened to address a wide range of mental health and diagnostic issues.  Motivational Interviewing is a brief intervention that may be easily integrated into longer term counseling approaches.  Values, a topic ordinarily avoided in counseling, are explicitly addressed and utilized in Motivational Interviewing.  At the end of the workshop attendees will: 

1. Have applied knowledge in methods for addressing client ambivalence, resistance and defensiveness;

2.  Have done exercises intended to enhance empathy and rapport-building skills; and

3.  have address the role that values can play in helping people commit to change.

Registration Form