2nd semester 

Learning Objective

Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to:

• Be familiar with various counseling styles
• Understand the spirit, principles, and basic skills of motivational interviewing
• Express empathy
• Develop therapeutic alliance/collaboration
• Understand negotiation within the context of action planning
• Know how to use brief behavior change interventions in the field of health services
• Understand how to use motivational interviewing in the school setting

Course Content

Through this course, students become acquainted with communication and counseling approaches, with an emphasis on the model of motivational interviewing. The course also provides the opportunity to students to practice counseling skills. Specifically, the course includes the following topics:

• Introduction to brief counseling in health services
• Person-centered approach
• Expressing empathy
• Developing therapeutic alliance
• The trans-theoretical model of behavior change
• The counseling model "5As"
• The spirit of motivational interviewing (MI)
• The 4 processes of motivational interviewing
• Motivational interviewing: Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, and Summary reflections (OARS)
• Discussing change: Desire, Ability, Reasons, Need – Commitment, Actuation, Taking Steps (the DARN-CAT of change talk)
• Motivational interviewing in the school environment
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques