Workshop: Reducing Harm From Substance Use: Motivational Interviewing and Harm Reduction-Workshop: Reducing Harm From Substance Use: Motivational Interviewing and Harm Reduction

Workshop: Reducing Harm From Substance Use: Motivational Interviewing and Harm Reduction

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Summary:<br />The video discusses the principles and techniques of motivational interviewing (MI) within the context of harm reduction. The presenters emphasize the importance of incorporating MI approaches into teaching and highlight the overlap between harm reduction and MI. They explain the four processes of MI and the core skills used, such as open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summarizing. The importance of change talk, or statements made by patients about wanting to change, is emphasized, and strategies for evoking change talk are provided. A brief clip from a session is shown to demonstrate the application of MI techniques. The video encourages viewers to consider the connection between MI and harm reduction, with MI supporting positive choices and improvements in various aspects of a person's life. No specific credits are mentioned in the video.

Keywords

motivational interviewing

harm reduction

MI approaches

teaching

core skills

open-ended questions

affirmations

reflections

summarizing

change talk

positive choices

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