We can be discouraged and distressed when those we serve suffer greatly, and--on the surface--appear to be causing themselves more harm than good. This workshop will help us engage with our clients, understand the context of their painful circumstances, and move together toward relief. Enhancing our effectiveness in these difficult conversations helps others change and also frees us from our own distress.
This fast-paced and highly interactive session will help you grow your skills for challenging contexts and conversations. In this workshop, we will discuss the basic definitions of trauma and trauma informed care, and how the spirit and skills of Motivational Interviewing enable practitioners to engage in many different levels of trauma informed care. We will also identify specific strategies for helping our clients minimize relapse risk, and make use of the resources and information we share with them. We will practice skills for strengthening our helping relationships and enhancing our clients’ readiness for real and sustainable change.
Who Can Attend?
Any helping professional interested in learning more about the utilization of Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Care
Kristin Dempsey (above)
Ali Hall (below)
What you will learn in this course:
Define and list four distinct types of psychological trauma
Explain how the four components of the spirit of MI promotes safety among trauma survivors talking about their experiences
Apply three skills of effective helping to increase engagement among trauma survivors
Show how to negotiate at least one appropriate change target for trauma survivors
Demonstrate three interventions that promote change talk among trauma survivors
Apply five Motivational Interviewing microskills to promote trauma survivor engagement in treatment
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Speaker Bios:
Kristin Dempsey, EDD, LMFT, LPCC
Kristin is a psychotherapist, counselor educator, and trainer in evidence-based psychotherapy practices. Kristin is a practicing licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical counselor. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings: schools, community-based organization, county mental health, training agencies, and universities and professional schools. Kristin has been training clinicians and students in motivational interviewing since 2008, and Kristin has been practicing motivational interviewing since 2001. In addition to training in motivational interviewing, Kristin trains and provides consultation for clinicians in dialectical behavior therapy, trauma informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, clinician self-care, and suicide prevention and intervention. Kristin is lecturing faculty at San Francisco State University where she teaches addictions counseling, and she is an associate professor at the Wright Institute’s Counseling Psychology program where she teaches counseling skills, developmental psychology, research-based practice, group counseling, and addiction treatment. Kristin has assisted counseling agencies with self-assessment and programmatic change, and her EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership has assisted her in providing systems-level consultation. She is the author of The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction published by New Harbinger Press in 2024. She sees clients in San Francisco and Burlingame, CA offices.
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Ali Hall
She joined MINT in 2006 and works full time as an independent consultant and trainer, virtually as well as out of Reno, NV, San Francisco, CA and the Washington, DC areas. She has been fortunate to have designed and facilitated several thousand MI workshops for health care practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and criminal / juvenile justice professionals, and provide training for trainers in evidence-based practices. She currently serves on the MINT Board of Directors and works with the professional skill development committee grouping. She also has served on a number of MINT committees and TNT teams in Fort Wayne, Atlanta, Berlin, New Orleans and Warsaw. She frequently provides MI coding and skill development coaching, coding QA, research intervention design, and consultation to systems for effective MI implementation. She is also a co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instrument and co-author of Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement. She spent her undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and completed graduate studies in organizational behavior at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University as well as my J.D. at the Cornell University School of Law. In her spare time, she participates in cold- water marathon swimming events, raising funds for under-resourced kids’ charities.
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Frequently asked questions
You will have access for 30 days. All of the downloadable materials are yours to keep!
Receive a certificate for 2 hour of CE for completing this course!
For CE, you must watch the video, score a passing grade on the quiz and complete the end of course evaluation.
We do not provide CE certificate for partial completion.
Following learning session and completion of End of Course evaluation, participants will receive an email with their downloadable CE certificate with 48 hours.
Does your board not accept CE from any of our continuing education providers listed above? Upon workshop completion, you will receive a certificate of 2 hours of CE, and we will provide trainer bio and workshop objects to turn in to your board along with your certificate of completion.
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2 Hour Workshop
Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Care
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