2011 Summer Institute - Track 9
A Family Centered Approach to Healthy Living: Motivational Interviewing and Tobacco Cessation
Day 1 and 2 - Motivational Interviewing is a method for helping people to resolve ambivalence and make successful behavior change by evoking motivation and commitment. It's a way of helping people to find their own motivation to make changes in their life.
People usually feel ambivalent about change and are highly sensitive to attempts of persuasion. As a result of being told what to do, they often respond with resistance and denial. Motivational Interviewing is different. Rather than probing with questions to extract information, we seek to gain the person's perspective and use that momentum to move toward a plan that is both realistic and palatable in their unique home/school/work life.
Learn to listen in a special way to activate Change Talk. Change Talk is when people are talking about their own desire, ability, reasons & need to make healthy changes. Learn how to Ask for Change Talk, recognize it and strengthen it when you hear it!
Day 3 - Along with Motivational Interviewing we will uncover the many facets of tobacco use and exposure and how we can easily address these concerns in the early learning environment. Children are adversely affected by tobacco, and the impacts can have long lasting consequences in school readiness as well as short and long term health. We will discuss evidence-based methods to have brief and effective conversations with parents. We will also discuss tobacco’s affects on childhood development and health, nicotine addiction, new research on secondhand and thirdhand smoke, and cessation tools and resources.
The families we work with are disproportionately affected by the consequences of tobacco use and exposure. This training will give you tools, resources, and knowledge to have a lasting positive impact on the health and well being of children and families.
Jonnae Tillman has been providing training in Motivational Interviewing in health care and social service organizations throughout Washington & Oregon for over ten years. Sheis a member of MINT (the international group of professionals trained by Drs. Miller & Rollnick, authors of Motivational Interviewing, 1996) and is also the Clinical Director of Innovative Programs Research Group at the University of Washington, training clinicians to use MI in research. In 2009 and 2010 Jonnae provided MI trainings to Early Head Start, Head Start and ECEAP in King, Pierce, Thurston, Whatcom, Island, Kitsap and Clallam counties.
Matthew Gulbranson has been working in the field of tobacco cessation and prevention for the past 12 years. He has worked closely with many different community and private organizations providing training and technical assistance to decrease the prevalence of tobacco use and exposure. He is currently working as the Program Manager for Tobacco Cessation in Early Learning at PSESD.
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