Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Foundations of Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Learn how to use the core Motivational Interviewing strategies to facilitate alterations in the behaviors your clients. Learn more Foundations in Motivational Interviewing.

Instructor: Charles Smith, MSW, CSWA, is the Principal at Charles Smith and Associates LLC, providing clinical services and therapeutic martial arts with adults, youth, and families, and is the owner of Portland Soo Bahk Do martial arts center. Mr. Smith serves as the program coordinator for the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation of Oregon and a therapist at Black Men and Women in Training. He also teaches at Tennessee State University. Mr. Smith has 17 years of family preservation treatment experience, 35 years of training experience, and 20 years of supervision and management experience. He became a Certified Motivational Interviewing Trainer in 1993, and is also a Certified Trainer in Social Services Competency Based Training (1996). Mr. Smith enjoys spending time with family, playing golf, and exploring nature.

Intermediate Motivational Interviewing (MI)

You already have a basic understanding of Motivational Interviewing, but there are additional skills you’ll need to implement MI effectively with your clients and patients. In the Intermediate Motivational Interviewing course you will learn about:

• Further applications of Motivational Interviewing as an approach to facilitate change
• Using the 4 processes of Motivational Interviewing in your practice
• Preparatory change talk
• Gauging readiness to change
• Transitioning to planning
• Supporting change as a daily, long-term practice
• Cultural considerations, and how to adapt MI strategies accordingly

Instructor: Charles Smith, MSW, CSWA, is the Principal at Charles Smith and Associates LLC, providing clinical services and therapeutic martial arts with adults, youth, and families, and is the owner of Portland Soo Bahk Do martial arts center. Mr. Smith serves as the program coordinator for the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation of Oregon and a therapist at Black Men and Women in Training. He also teaches at Tennessee State University. Mr. Smith has 17 years of family preservation treatment experience, 35 years of training experience, and 20 years of supervision and management experience. He became a Certified Motivational Interviewing Trainer in 1993, and is also a Certified Trainer in Social Services Competency Based Training (1996). Mr. Smith enjoys spending time with family, playing golf, and exploring nature.

Format: 1 day, 8 hours of in-class instruction

CEU eligibility: Approved by NASW-OR and ACCBO to receive 8 CEU hours

Cost: $159