Using Motivational Interviewing to Treat Depression

This course builds on the foundational understanding set in the course, <i>Motivational Interviewing: The Basics</i>. As its name suggests, the Basics course examines the spirit of motivational interviewing, covers the main principles of motivational interviewing, and goes through the stages of change, showing how to elicit change talk in clients. Unless you are very familiar with the principles and specific techniques of motivational interviewing, you should do the Basics course before embarking on this one. This course explores why, as mental health practitioners, we might be interested in a therapy such as motivational interviewing to treat depression, and what the research says about its effectiveness with this disorder in a typical clinical situation. We follow up the explanation of general principles from the Basics course with a specific application of those principles to depression in this course.