Evaluation Plans

SBIRT Skills Videos

SBIRT in Action

Screening for Substance Abuse

Brief Negotiation Interview Reluctant Patient

An MET Approach for Treating Chronic Pain

Addressing Risky Alcohol Use

The Personalized Reflective Discussion

Brief Negotiation Interview Treatment Referral

SBIRT Expert Reflective Discussion

Motivational Interviewing Core Skills in Action

Screening and Brief Motivational Intervention for Cannabis Misuse

Motivational Interviewing Strategies in the Brief Negotiated Interview

MET/CBT Skills Videos

MI Spirit

MI Spirit
In this vignette, the therapist demonstrates how to convey the MI Spirit of recognizing the client’s autonomy, making an effort to build collaboration, and evoking the client’s own perspective and narrative, in talking with a client.

OARS Open Ended Questions

OARS Open Ended Questions
Here the therapist demonstrates one of the 4 core basic MI strategies of asking open ended questions.

Giving Feedback

Giving Feedback
Here you will see how the MI style of communication is woven into the process of giving structured feedback in response to an assessment or other information.  Part of giving feedback is to adhere to the MI FRAMES model: Feedback, Responsibility, Advice (with permission), Menu of options, Express empathy, and Support Self Efficacy.

Introducing the Subject

Introducing the Subject
Here, the therapist introduces the two techniques, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Therapy, that will be used in treatment sessions as well as the structure and other related elements.

Enhancing Social Supports

Enhancing Social Supports
This session models the cognitive behavior therapy technique of building healthy support networks.

Generating Commitment

Generating Commitment
This session models the MI strategy of eliciting a specific commitment around some sort of action related to any change the client voiced s/he was willing to make.

Problem Solving

Problem Solving
This session models the cognitive behavior therapy technique of teaching problem solving to a client.

OARS Summaries

OARS Summaries
Here you will see a demonstration of the 4th core basic MI strategies – the use of summaries. Summaries can be used every 5 minutes or so and demonstrate to the client that you are present and listening to them.  They can also be helpful to increase awareness and transition to other topics.

Change Talk

Change Talk
This vignette demonstrates strategies for eliciting and reinforcing any language voiced by the client in favor of change.

Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is Power
In this vignette, the therapist teaches the client a fundamental cognitive behavioral strategy of functional analysis using the “Knowledge is Power” framework.

Assertive Communication

Assertive Communication
This vignette models the cognitive behavior therapy technique of teaching and practicing assertive communication when refusing alcohol and/or other drugs.

OARS Affirmations

OARS Affirmations
In this video, you see examples of how the therapist finds opportunities to use a second of the 4 core basic MI strategies: using affirmations.

Rolling with Resistance

Rolling with Resistance
Demonstrates a clinician responding to a client’s active “pushing back” against the idea of change.

Reflections

Reflections
This session models the third of the 4 core basic MI strategies of using reflections. This strategy is one of the most critical and can be extremely useful when responding to resistance.