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Motivational Interviewing Course

Motivational Interviewing,
and how to use it effectively.

Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited Motivational Interviewing training courses. The training is also approved by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Completion of the course results in 18 CE credits* and it is the only Motivational Interviewing training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies.

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Executive Summary:

Motivational Interviewing describes an organized way of helping people to recognize their problems and to do something about them. Principally it addresses behavior about which the client has mixed feelings: drinking and substance misuse for example, but a surprising array of common mental and physical health problems as well. Issues from taking psychoactive medication through to eating more healthily can all be addressed using motivational interviewing.

This course is based on the latest edition of Miller and Rollnick's book so covers the four broad components of skill, namely: Knowledge and Spirit, Engaging, Focusing and Evoking, and Planning and Integration. In addition it looks at the relationship between Motivational Interviewing and The Stages of Change (the work of DiClemente et al). And finally it covers how to develop your Motivational Interviewing skills and practise after the course.

Attend the course as an individual, or we can bring the 3-day course to your own organization and train a group of 6-15 people, or you or your colleagues may be able to be trained to roll out the course in your organization under license.

Who should attend?

This is an ‘introductory’ course to MI and people who attend normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to become proficient in motivational interviewing.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a unified level of proficiency in motivational interviewing.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and others working in a variety of settings including: Substance Misuse, Forensic, Adult Mental Health, and Children & Adolescents.

Course Subjects:

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course, the learner will be able to:

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

CE Credits from the APA

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*The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Upon completion of this course you can apply for CE certification for an additional cost of $20 USD (for training purchased after 08/14/2023).

Requirements for completion: To be awarded CE credits for this course 100% attendance is required for live training. For the 'online anytime' (self-paced) version, you are required to complete the course in full and complete a multiple choice exam whereby a pass marks of 85% is required (failure on the third attempt would result in having to go back through the content again). A feedback survey is also required to be completed.

Note: there may be other professional licensing boards that accept CE credits earned from APA-approved sponsors. Because CE regulations vary by state and profession, we recommend that participants check with their state licensing board to inquire whether credits will be accepted for renewal of licensure. We do not have any authority over whether credits earned will be accepted, as this authority rests with the state licensing boards.

Instructor credentials and endorsements:

Note, all APT tutors are consultant clinical psychologists (or similar) and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program. Similarly, no benefit of endorsements have been received.


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Option 1: Online Anytime course:

A highly engaging pre-recorded course you can start any time you like – right now if you want. Price: $320 USD per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam.

 Guarantee

If you don’t complete the course for some reason, then you can simply ask for your money back!

If you are a manager ordering multiple courses, and some of your team don’t complete them, you can ask us to transfer those courses to others in your team!

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Option 2: Online Live course:

A live and interactive event hosted online via Zoom  (and you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account). Price: $575 USD per person. The fee covers: tuition, PDF workbook, certification, registration, and accreditation at APT’s Level 1, with option to sit the online exam to upgrade to Level 2.

Available dates (courses run from 10am-4pm Eastern Time, unless otherwise stated):

   24-26 June 2025

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Option 3: Exclusive course for your organization:

We can bring the course and tutor to you and your organization, for a group of up to 15 people. Choose online via Zoom or Teams ($6,090 USD, extra delegates: $390 USD per person), or Face-to-Face in the room ($9,195 USD plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses, extra delegates: $615 USD per person).

To book, email office@aptmentalhealthtraining.com, or click the button: 

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APT Accreditation

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 150,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Feedback Ratings

Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.

Face-to-Face


Presentation: 98%


Relevance: 96%


Online Live


Presentation: 95%


Relevance: 97%



Written Feedback

Reviews.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments our Motivational Interviewing courses have received.

"Brilliant. Approachable, clear, kept me motivated for 3 days (an impossibility!). Best course I've been on in 18 years on the job."

"I feel that this has been the best training course I have been on so far in my professional career in terms of its relevance to my current practice and enhancement of my existing skills."

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