Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an ethical, client-centred counselling style for eliciting behaviour change by supporting clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.
MI is a useful tool for professionals working with people in a disability support and/or therapeutic context. This workshop provides an overview of Motivational Interviewing, the core skills involved and how to adapt these ethically and respectfully for people with cognitive disability.
Given the utility of MI skills across entire teams, the workshop is considered useful for:
Dr Lee Cubis is a Clinical Psychologist with 19 years of experience working in the disability sector where he has delivered frontline services to individuals with moderate to severe behaviours of concern. This includes work with people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Intellectual Disability, Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and neurodegenerative disease (e.g. dementia, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington's Disease). Lee works with individuals, families and formal support workers across university, private and community ABI settings. He regularly runs professional development training to the disability support sector in the areas of Positive Behaviour Support and adapting interventions for people with cognitive disability. Lee is also an active researcher in disability and regularly presents at national and international conferences.