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Summary:
The Missouri Institute of Mental Health is pleased to offer a pair of DVDs that look at Motivational Interviewing.
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Summary:
Further explore both the importance of the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing and guidelines for specific applications of MI. Topics include a brief review of empathic counseling skills (OARS) and in introduction to directive aspects of MI, dealing with resistance, and recognizing and eliciting change talk.
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Motivational Interviewing is a tool for use in helping people resolve their ambivalence, or internal conflict, about changing their behavior. This training covers what MI is, why you hear people talking about the Spirit of MI and why that that is so important. You will learn how MI works and why, and be given resources for further learning or finding information, and for comparing MI with other approaches.
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Use of psychotropic medications has increased dramatically in this generation. Illnesses once thought hopeless and untreatable have been brought under control, and the people with these illnesses have been allowed to live healthy, productive lives. Bearing witness to the positive and negative aspects of psychotropic medications, and often faced with the brunt of day-to-day questions about these drugs are the case managers, social workers, psychologists, counselors, nurses, aides and other front line mental health care staff.
Program Presenter:
Roger W. Sommi, PharmD, FCCP, BCPP, received his Bachelors in Pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Utah in 1985, and completed a Clinical Services Fellowship in Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice at the University of Texas at Austin and Austin State Hospital. He is currently Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Psyhiatry at the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Research Director of the Psychopharmacy Research and Education Program at Western Missouri Mental Health Center.
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The class provides information about offenders incarcerated in state of Missouri prisons with Substance Abuse problems and Mental Health disorders. Dr. Nolin will discuss some basic challenges faced by offenders with co-occurring disorders face within the correctional system and upon release into the community and reference some evolving interventions and initiatives being implemented by MoDOC and partnering agencies. The session will review some mechanisms being implemented in order to improve the continuity of care for the offenders. Finally the session will identify to ways for concerned citizens and human services professionals to partner with the Department of Corrections to foster offender success in the community.
Program Presenter:
Marta Nolin is the Assistant Director of the Division of Offender Rehabilitative Services responsible for Substance Abuse Services. She serves on the state steering team and Department of Corrections’ leadership team for the Missouri Re-entry Process. Her diverse professional background includes working as a mental health clinician for many years in psychiatric and academic settings and six years as a college and university administrator in Massachusetts and Ohio. Marta has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from University of Missouri- Columbia.
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