Legal Aspects and Legal Writing for JJ CORE 2024-3

This training provides a foundation for facilitating Motivational Interviewing with clients, which will optimize desired, successful, meaningful outcomes for the individuals. Participants will explore what Motivational Interviewing is and is not. This training emphasizes the basic principles of Motivational Interviewing. This practice is a client-led, strength-based method of intervention. Interviewing skills, techniques, and appropriate responses to client statements, consistent with Motivational Interviewing, will be covered. Participants will understand the different stages of change that clients may go through when working to make important life changes and how to effectively respond, as a worker, in these situations. This training is a hands-on training that requires a live practice of Motivational Interviewing in a 90-minute Zoom session and additional skills practice with a partner. Participants will be responsible for connecting with their assigned partner to complete the assignment.