Engaging child welfare professionals will offer actionable strategies to help identify, prevent, and reduce childhood obesity in families and communities within the child welfare system. This e-Learning includes an overview, both medical and mental health perspectives on childhood obesity, and resources for families to fight the obesity epidemic and address food insecurity.
Course Overview:
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a form of collaborative conversation for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change. It is a person-centered counseling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change by paying particular attention to the language of change. It is designed to strengthen an individual's motivation for and movement toward a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person's own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion (http://motivationalinterviewing.org - opens in a new window).
This course takes the learner on a tour of the essential skills used to strengthen an individual’s motivation for behavior change. Descriptions, demonstrations, and learning activities provide an introduction to MI.
This course is not meant to prepare the learner to deliver this evidence-based practice with fidelity. Learning MI is a developmental process that requires a longer-term investment of time and effort. This includes repeated opportunities to practice learned skills, to receive feedback on performance from experienced MI practitioners, and to integrate this feedback into practice.
This course may be taken for a Certificate of Completion, and for a small fee, offers four hours' worth of your choice of NAADAC, NBCC or NASW Continuing Education credit.
By completing the Tour of Motivational Interviewing, the learner can make an informed decision on whether or not to pursue more advanced MI training.
This online course was prepared by the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Nursing and Health Studies’ Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (Mid-America ATTC), under a cooperative agreement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
This four hour training provides the prerequisite for the CSEC training.
This training is for out of home care providers that have completed the LA County CSEC 101 training.
If you have not completed the LA County CSEC 101 training, please do that before taking this training.