Workshop Description

The focus of this interactive, skill-building workshop is to provide school counselors with additional models and strategies for fulfilling their roles in the academic development domain of the ASCA National Model, including the use of motivational strategies in individual and group counseling for academic achievement and parent/teacher/system consultation and training regarding academic motivation issues.

Learning Objectives

• Examine the listening characteristics and counselor qualities required to motivate students to change and achieve.
• Learn to ask open-ended questions to elicit "willing to change" talk, "able to change" talk and "ready to change" talk.
• Discover how to reflect, affirm and summarize change talk.
• Focus on using readiness rulers, confidence rulers and the decisional balance worksheet in eliciting change talk.
• Address strategies for working with resistance.

Presenters

Kathy Biles, Ph.D., NCC, learned the value of motivational interviewing in her work with students expelled from school for substance abuse issues. During her work with these students, she discovered the power of motivational interviewing to change not only students' addictive behaviors but also improve their academic performance. She currently teaches an addictions counseling class at Oregon State University Cascades and teaches her students motivational interviewing strategies.

Gene Eakin, Ph.D., has completed certification in The Art of Health Behavior Change: An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing and The Art of Health Behavior Change: An Advanced Training in Motivational Interviewing and uses these strategies in individual and group work with his students at West Salem High School, Ore.

Schedule: Full-day training; 0.6 CEUs available to attendees

Cost: $2,500 for full day