***This course has been retired and is no longer being maintained. An updated version is available HERE***


This training will get you familiar with a concept called Motivational Interviewing, a strategy to help guide your patients and help them become their own agent of change.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the key concepts and steps in motivational interviewing.
  • Demonstrate ways to lead a client through the steps of motivational interviewing.
  • Describe how using motivational interviewing can produce better results with patients than other instructional or interviewing methods.

Target Audience:  Allied Health Professionals, Dietitians, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Social Workers, General Public Health Staff, Healthcare

Tier(s) and Competency Domain(s): Tier I- Analytical/Assessment Skills, Communication Skills

Duration: 30 minutes

Continuing Education Information:  0.5 CECH for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest

Format:  Web-based Training, Self Study

Created/Updated: 9/18/2017

Skill Level: Beginner
CHES Event ID#: 28439
Category 1 Credits: 0.5
Continuing Competency Credits: 0
Advanced Credits: 0
Level 1: No
Level 2: No
Level 3: No