CEU: Effective Parent Collaboration with Motivational Interviewing

BCBA CEUs: 2 BACB General

QBA, QASP-S CEUs: 2 General

IBAO CEUs: 2- General

APA/CESA: 2 General (Home Study)

Description: We walk the walk, but do we talk the talk? As clinicians, do we speak with parents or with them? Is it effective in motivating them to adhere to interventions or do you find that sometimes they inhale and exhale at the sight/sound of parent training sessions?

Research shows that parents who receive parent training obtain better outcomes out of their children's treatment, decrease their overall expenditures in therapy and become empowered to maintain these behavior changes over time. However, while parents are bringing their children to treatment (which is indicative of their desire to find help, unless, of course, they are mandated by the court), it is still a challenge to help parents follow through with interventions at home. 

A proposed solution for this is Motivational Interviewing which is an empirically proven intervention that has shown substantial success in the literature in changing addictive behaviors in substance users, medication adherence in patients, and training teachers and caregivers on behavior modification techniques for children with developmental disabilities. MI uses change talk strategies to increase cooperation and therefore decrease resistance.

Presenter: Dr. Monica Gilbert, Psy.D., BCBA-D, LMHC

Dr. Glibert's book, How to Stop Talking and Start Communicating with Motivational Interviewing: A Behavior Therapist Guide on How to Effectively Collaborate with Caregivers (paperback) is also available for purchase.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

1. Assess parent's motivation based on the trans-theoretical model and use different proven measures
2. Provide examples of effective change talk strategies to develop and build collaborative relationships with parents;
3. Conceptualize motivation from an ABA perspective
4. Identify traps that harm clinician-parental relationships;
5. Describe key features of MI
6. Measure change talk vs. counter-change talk
7. Identify key features necessary for building a cooperative relationship between caregivers and clinicians

TIMELINE: This course, on its own has a license for active use for 30 days unless it is purchased as part of a bundle/library.

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