Blending Motivational Interviewing Skills with Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
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The integration of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) can provide clients with a more empowering, collaborative, and effective therapeutic experience. Rather than focusing on the issues that brought clients to seek therapy, SFBT concentrates on cultivating solutions and leveraging the client’s strengths. By combining the collaborative, empathetic techniques of MI with the future-oriented, strengths-based techniques of SFBT, professionals can help clients achieve lasting change in a brief timeframe.
During this training, Dee-Dee Stout explores key concepts and strategies of both MI and SFBT, including:
- Setting concrete, achievable goals
- Scaling questions
- Uncovering exceptions
- Change talk
- Using the miracle question
- Reflections and reframing
The training reviews how professionals can apply these techniques to various issues, such as stress, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, relationship difficulties, and work-related concerns. Through a combination of theory, practical examples, and interactive exercises, participants gain skills and knowledge to guide clients towards positive outcomes. This training is suitable for both experienced practitioners and those new to the field, providing a practical approach to creating change in clients’ lives.
1) Understand the key principles and techniques of SFBT and how they can be integrated with MI.
2) Apply SFBT and MI techniques to provide an effective therapeutic experience.
3) Recognize the similarities and differences between MI and SFBT, and how their integration can lead to positive client outcomes in fewer sessions.
4) Demonstrate an understanding of the research supporting the effectiveness of SFBT and MI in creating lasting change for a wide range of client issues.
Audience
This training is for mental health professionals, such as therapists, counselors, and social workers, who want to better understand how to integrate MI and SFBT in practice.
Content Level
Who's Presenting
Dee-Dee Stout
Dee-Dee Stout holds a Master’s degree in Health Counseling from San Francisco State University. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Human Sexuality from the same University. Dee-Dee has conducted some 900 presentations and trainings to date.
Dee-Dee is currently Adjunct Faculty at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA, and was a longtime member of the faculty at City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and California State University, Monterey Bay where she developed hybrid classes in “Drugs, Society and Public Policy” as well as “Substance Use Disorders.” She has also developed curriculum for the Northern California Training Academy at UC Davis as well as for both UC Berkeley and CSU East Bay Extensions in their respective CCAPP certificate programs.
Dee-Dee has worked in numerous treatment settings: therapeutic community (TC), social model, and medical-model settings in a variety of treatment levels for those with substance use disorders/other mental health challenges – both for individual clients and for their family/concerned significant others. Her past accomplishments in treatment include developing exercise programs; forming a relapse prevention treatment program for a large HMO; starting a family program for a residential social-model treatment program, and bringing trauma-informed treatment to female prisoners and other moms.