When: June 7, 2024 from 10AM EST to 5:30 PM EST. 

Training Announcement: Motivational Interviewing for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Date: June 7, 2024

Time: 10AM EST - 5:30PM EST

Location: Zoom

This live Zoom training will cost $200 and will be aimed at providing specialized training in the delivery of Motivational Interviewing to professionals and trainees working with clients who have ADHD. Individuals with attention, executive functioning, and motivation difficulties often struggle to engage in interventions such as medication, educational interventions, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and ADHD coaching. Motivational Interviewing is an empirically supported technique that builds patient (and parent) engagement in treatment by targeting relational aspects of the provider-patient relationships as well as consideration of the change process during treatment.

The goal of ADHD treatments are to adequately manage day to day symptoms and impairments. MI for ADHD empowers patients to take the reins of their own treatment by: 

*Promoting patient autonomy 

*Building self-efficacy

*Strengthening alliance between providers and patients

*Empowering patients to make their own decisions about ADHD care

The training will involve a combination of didactics, small and large group discussions, hands on activities, videos, and role-plays.

 Learning Objectives: At the completion of the program participants will be able to:

1. Identify how ADHD undermines patient motivation and follow-through in treatment.
2. Use Motivational Interviewing strategies to increase patient motivation to engage in ADHD treatment.
3. Enhance patient awareness of their personal goals, values, and priorities related to treatment and improved functioning.
4. Create a forward-focused treatment environment that builds patient self-efficacy and momentum in treatment. 
5. Apply strategies to address non-adherence and oppositional attitudes toward medication and psychotherapeutic treatments. 
6. Take an autonomy support approach to patient treatment planning, delivery of psychoeducation, and skills training.

CE Credit: 6 hours of CE credit from the American Psychological Association is available for attendees who are present for the entire program. We ask that all participants return to the post-program evaluation form at the conclusion of the program.

Disclosures: Dr. Sibley receives book royalties from Guilford Press for a book about applying Motivational Interviewing to work with adolescents with ADHD.

For additional information please contact Dr. Maggie Sibley.

STAND Learning LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. STAND Learning LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.