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Lessons from Motivational Interviewing on Guiding People Toward Change

Introductory
| Continuing Education Credit Available
Live Session Dates

Thurs March 30 @8-9pm ET

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Overview

Collaboration and Counseling in Audiology and Listening and Spoken Language Service Delivery

As professionals supporting families of children with hearing loss, we play a unique role in guiding and coaching families as they learn and practice new skills to support their child’s listening and spoken language (LSL) development. Many families apply newly learned skills (meeting full time device wear time, integrating LSL strategies, attending appointments), and others face challenges in implementing these new changes in their lives. At the core of professional service, providing the right assistance is the pathway to success. This involves having the right knowledge, but also possessing the insight and skill to help families accept and utilize it. The new series “Collaboration and Counseling in AuD and LSL Service Delivery” explores the concepts of Motivational Interviewing, Behavioral Change, Infant Mental Health and Reflective Supervision and their application to AuD and LSL interventions to support families and their child’s listening and spoken language success and enhance LSL professional practice.

Part 1

With the best information, advice, and encouragement, parents and children can remain ambivalent about needed change. Explore how people in the helping environment can position themselves with families to help them make the best decisions about the change they face. Concepts from Motivational Interviewing will be offered that explore an approach which respects autonomy and informs guidance about making change.

Course Agenda

Featuring

Steven Wells PhD, LCSW

Steven P. Wells is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oklahoma (U.S.A.) and is Emeritus Clinical Associate Professor in the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma. He has served the field of family and children services since 1976 as a child welfare worker, family mediator, foster parent trainer, group counselor, and university professor. Dr. Wells holds a doctorate in early childhood education, specializing in parental involvement. He has explored Motivational Interviewing for the last fifteen years as a helpful model for helping people make difficult change and has conducted extensive training for allied health professionals. Dr. Wells is married to a social worker and is the parent of four adult children, five grandchildren, and has experienced parenting a child with severe neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Financial Disclosures: Dr. Wells receives compensation from Hearing First for the facilitation of this course.

Non-financial disclosures: Dr. Wells is a member of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Course Requirements

Learners who request CE credits but do not complete all course requirements will receive an email communication at the end of the course. No partial credit will be awarded.

Technology + Materials

To get the most from your learning you'll need:

  • a digital device such as a laptop or tablet with audio

  • a strong Internet connection with bandwidth minimum of 512 Kbps

  • to download the Adobe Connect app (more details here).

  • to check your browser settings (more details here).

Pre-Learning

Live Session

Learning Assessment

Certificate of Completion

Learning Outcomes

  • Describe the effect of ambivalence on the ability to make needed change, and what knowledge and skills provide the best response for helping people make change.
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  • Course Communications
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Continuing Education

Continuing education credits are offered for this learning experience. Although there’s no cost to you as a participant to register or earn credit for this course, your full commitment to participate and engage in the learning is considered your contribution.

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CE Credits Offered:

2.5

AG BellCEUs

0.25

ASHA CEUs

0.25

AAACEUs

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Hearing First is approved by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language to offer Continuing Education Hours for Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) certification. This program has been approved for a maximum of 2.5 CEUs. AG Bell Academy approval of this course is based on information shared by the approved provider. Views shared by the presenter(s) may not necessarily reflect the views of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language either in part or whole.

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Hearing First is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.25 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy's Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.

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Connect the Dots

An excellent resource for professionals to use with families, this eBook shows the logic chain that connects basic brain biology and how we learn to talk and read. Created with Dr. Carol Flexer, Ph.D., CCC/A, LSLS Cert. AVT, this eBook will help families understand each step on the path, or link in the logic chain, to help their child reach their full potential.

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