Motivational Interviewing Training | Swan Hill

Aboriginal health practitioners, allied health professionals, nurses and other primary healthcare professionals working in the Murray PHN catchment, who would like to offer extended client support or brief interventions, and increase their skills, knowledge and confidence in their motivational interviewing approach can attend this training.

Learning outcomes:

• Describe the key skills and principles of motivational interviewing and its benefits
• Evaluate the client’s readiness, willingness and motivation to change
• Use effective communication and practical strategies to encourage conversation with a client
• Identify the client’s discrepancy between current and preferred behaviour through the decisional balance tool
• Prepare a plan with realistic goals with clients to help facilitate and motivate them towards change.

Presenter:

• Stavroula Zandes, Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants.

Stav has a background in psychology and counselling and worked with Quit Victoria and the Cancer Council Victoria for 20 years in a range of roles. From 2005 – 2012, she was responsible for Quit’s statewide smoking cessation intervention training programs for health, community, workplace and education professionals. Stav is currently lecturing and tutoring at Monash University in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. In 2013, she founded Health & Wellbeing Training Consultants – a training and education business focusing on health and wellbeing, and specialising in behaviour change and communication skills, such as motivational interviewing.

Click here to register.

Check in from 8.45am.
Enquiries to education@murrayphn.org.au