Effectively blend motivational interviewing and CBT to achieve better client outcomes

When: Coming 2025
Time: 9:30am – 4:30pm
Duration: 7 hours
Location: Online

Become a more effective practitioner by learning how to blend and move between two key evidence based approaches: MI and CBT. In this workshop, we explore frameworks and key elements of these two approaches and help you combine them in your practice.

Boost your effectiveness with clients by seamlessly integrating these two key approaches in alcohol and other drug treatment. Through this interactive one day workshop, you will learn what makes these two core approaches unique, where they overlap and how to move seamlessly between them.

Learning outcomes

• Understand motivation and why people change, and the impacts on treatment outcomes
• Describe how motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy can work in unison
• Seamlessly integrate cognitive behavioural therapy with motivational interviewing
• Apply motivational interviewing to improve outcomes from cognitive behavioural therapy

Who should attend

This is a specialist skills workshop suitable for experienced and advanced practitioners and assumes basic knowledge of MI and CBT. We recommend you do our essential skills MI and CBT workshops before attending this workshop. This workshop is suitable for workers in clinical settings.

Facilitator: Paula Ross

“A fantastic way to learn more about MI and CBT's integration. Facilitators knowledge on the subject matter was evident and very informative.”

-Workshop participant, 2023