Phil Harris has worked with complex needs for over 28 years as a
practitioner, trainer and manager. He has extensive experience across the field front-line
substance misuse, homelessness, and mental health services. He has managed teams
including family, young people, dual diagnosis & personality disorders and substance
misuse. And designed a wide range of services from large scale multi-county treatment
systems to specialist programmes for groups with complex needs.
Phil is a visiting lecturer at Bristol University Social Policy Unit, adviser to the US BICEP
programme and World Health Organisation in the Balkans region. He has written over 20
scholarly articles on effective practice and has published five books on substance misuse,
treatment effectiveness, family and young people with complex needs. Visit
www.philharris.online for more information.
Motivational interviewing is a leading approach to increase
motivation and commitment to change. It was first developed in the alcohol field,
but as they had identified that there was no specific addiction psychology, it has
been developed in a wide range of areas including social work, offending, mental
health and homelessness fields. It has proven particularly effective with stuck or
entrenched clients from a wide range of backgrounds.
This course maps the key factors that elicit change and demonstrates how
Motivational Interviewing works alongside these forces. Drawing on both person
centred and directive techniques, it offers practical skills to assist the workers to
helps clients articulate and recognise the need for change. As such, it is an
effective primer to increase engagement with clients who have not yet achieved a
sufficient level of commitment and move them into action without confrontation.
Motivational Interviewing is useful for a wide range of social issues.
Its primary focus is on igniting motivation to change, and so it is helpful when clients are stuck in problems and not advancing in change. As such it is helpful in all change and
recovery-based services such as mental health, substance misuse, offending, social work,
domestic violence, supported housing, young people’s services, family work and more
besides.
By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:
The training course is highly interactive, even during presentations. It
uses a wide variety of learning approaches including presentations, pairs and small group
work exercises and self-assessment. The course is also supported with a comprehensive
workbook and free online e-learning and further resources to re-cap, review and refresh
learning.
