Move your motivational interviewing skills from theory to real life. As a mental health provider, you’re familiar with the spirit of motivational interviewing (MI): partnership, acceptance, compassion, and empowerment, as well as the skills that help you build a strong therapeutic connection. But when you’re faced with real-world challenges – clients who are ambivalent, silent, or feel stalled – how do you translate these principles into action? Advancing Motivational Interviewing is here to help you bridge that gap. Intended for seasoned MI practitioners, this hands-on guide is packed with experiential exercises, conversation strategies, and sample dialogues to take your MI skills to the next level. Inside, you’ll learn how to:
- Engage clients who seem “noncompliant,” disengaged, or discouraged
- Navigate uncomfortable silences or sensitive topics
- Balance professional boundaries with genuine self-disclosure
- Avoid getting stuck in the “fixing reflex”
- Make the most out of limited time in short sessions
- Adapt MI principles to virtual and web-based interactions
Whether you’re working in behavioral health, education, the justice system, or primary care, this book will help you break through the “stuck points” that keep you from using MI to its full potential.
Kristin's Book: The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction
Is it time for a change? This evidence-based workbook will help you reevaluate your relationship with addictive substances, and offers a powerful alternative to “abstinence-only” approaches.
Do you feel like you’re drinking too much or using too much, but you don’t necessarily want to give it up for good? A powerful alternative to “abstinence-only” approaches, the “harm reduction” model outlined in this evidence-based workbook draws on practices from motivational interviewing (MI) to help you explore your relationship with substance abuse, and find the motivation needed to create an individualized recovery plan.
In The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction, you’ll find skills-based exercises to help you focus on self-reflection; identify your strengths; discover common “life themes,” values, and goals; and explore different reasons you may have for change. Most importantly, you’ll find the tools needed to create your own “action plan” for moving forward and changing your relationship to substances.
This workbook will help you:
- Explore your relationship to substance abuse
- Identify your strengths, values, and goals
- Find your own motivations to change
- Change doesn’t have to happen overnight—it can happen at your own pace. If you’re ready to transform your relationship with addictive substances and change your life for the better, this workbook can help you get started now.
Kristin's Book: The Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery Workbook
An Integrated Approach to Overcome Co-Occurring Challenges and Take Back Your Life.
Dual recovery from mental illness and addiction is possible. Discover powerful skills and strategies for creating an effective, personalized recovery program with this workbook.
If you are struggling with addiction and a co-occurring mental health challenge such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress (PTSD), or bipolar disorders, you should know that you are not alone, and there is hope for a lasting, dual recovery. This evidence-based workbook can help you--or someone you love--find inner strength, address the addiction and mental health issues simultaneously, and acquire the skills and supports needed to build an enduring recovery program.
Written by national experts in treating co-occurring disorders, this workbook offers powerful, step-by-step guidance and skills to help you work through multiple challenges at once, strengthen your motivation for positive change, build on your successes--however small--to make continuing progress, and experience lasting personal growth. Using a combination of empathic wisdom, behavior skills training, engaging exercises, and real-world examples, this workbook will empower you to create your own personalized recovery plan, one that you can turn to again and again, whenever you need it.
Develop a dual, integrated recovery plan to help you:
- Embrace yourself as you are
- Harness the power of hope
- Focus on your strengths and build self-confidence
- Develop your own "integrated support team"
- Learn the skills you need to succeed
