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National Youth Mental Health Foundation
Participant Manual
Motivational Interviewing and Behaviour Change Techniques
headspace is funded by the Australian Government under the
Promoting Better Mental Health – Youth Mental Health Initiative
National Offi ce
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www.headspace.org.au

headspace Facilitator Training Guide2
Acknowledgements:
This training package was prepared by the headspace Service Provider
Education and Training (SPET) program.
Project writer:
Dr Helen Lindner (APS)
Claire Forsyth
Project contributors:
AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY (APS)
Harry Lovelock
Laurence Hennessy
Allen White
THE AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRACTICE NETWORK (AGPN)
Neroli Stayt
Tim Roberts
The headspace SPET program would like to thank the following
individuals for their advice throughout the development phase of the
headspace training packages.
Strategic Partnership and Planning Group Members
Dr Lena Sanci – Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
Dr Graham Fleming – Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
Dr Ros Montague – NSW Institute of Psychiatry
Professor Ann Roche – National Centre for Education and Training on
Addiction, Flinders University
Julie Porrit – AGPN Principal Adviser for Nursing in General Practice
Professor Jan Schmitzer – Batchelor Institute of Indigenous
Tertiary Education
Chief Inspector John Burgess – South Australian Police Force
Erica Frydenberg Assoc. Prof. – Faculty of Education, University
of Melbourne
Professor David Kavanagh – School of Medicine, University of Queensland
Amanda Bode – ACT Youth Coalition
Copyright
© 2008 The Australian Psychological Society Ltd
This work is copyrighted. Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright
Act 1968, no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from
the Australian Psychological Society.
headspace (The National Youth Mental Health Foundation) is funded by
the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the
Promoting Better Mental Health – Youth Mental Health Initiative.
For more details about headspace visit
www.headspace.org.au

Table of Contents
SECTION: CONTENT: PAGE:
1. Module A and B workshop overview
1.1 Introduction to headspace 6
1.2 Training materials and resources 8
1.3 Structure and content of the workshop 9
1.4 Training workshop program 10
1.5 Delivery of workshop 12
1.6 Evaluation 13
2. Readings 16
3. PowerPoint slides & notes pages 18
4. Module A and B worksheets
Participant Worksheets
Worksheet 1: Case study - Adam 54
Worksheet 2: Motivational Interviewing techniques 55
Worksheet 3: Case study - Sally 56
Worksheet 4: Case study - Adrian 57
Worksheet 5: Readiness to Change Stages and Process Sheet 59
Worksheet 6: Case study - Eloise 62
Worksheet 7: Case study - Rachel 63
Worksheet 8: Action Plan Form 64
Worksheet 9: Case study - Katrina 65
Worksheet 10: Case study - Travis 66
Homework sheets for Module A and B 58,67
5. Workshop evaluation
Participant Evaluation Form 71
6. Practice Review Workshop 76
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Section 1Training workshop overview

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Section 1.1 Introduction to headspace
Why headspace?
Mental health and substance use issues are the most serious health problems affecting young people and are a signifi cant public
health issue in the wider community. Approximately one out of every four young people (aged between 12 and 24 years) in
Australia will experience a mental or substance use disorder in any given year. These disorders are leading contributors to the
burden of disease in young people. Unfortunately, only one in four young people who experience a mental or substance use issue
actually receives professional assistance.
The current mental health system is not equipped to deal with young people who have mild to moderate mental health issues.
This often means that it is diffi cult for them to obtain timely treatment or fi nd a service that can respond to their needs.
As Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation, headspace is tackling the issues which stand in the way of young
people’s access to appropriate health services.
The headspace model
headspace is changing the way that assistance to young people at risk of mental health and related issues is approached.
The emphasis is on:
Increasing the community’s capacity to identify young people who are at risk of mental health and related issues, such as •
substance use, as early as possible
Encouraging help-seeking by young people, their families and carers•
Responding as early as possible to the risk of mental health and related issues using evidence-based interventions provided •
through an integrated model of care
Ensuring that key components of a young person’s social recovery, such as links to education, training and employment, are •
central to the care provided
Ensuring that young people play an active role in shaping the delivery of services•
Ensuring that the • headspace model of care provides for the support of family and friends in recognition of the important
roles they play in the mental health of young people.
This initiative relies on headspace services increasing the clinical capacity for responding to young people with these types
of issues.
headspace: a brief overview
headspace is Australia’s National Youth Mental Health Foundation funded by the Australian Government.
The headspace mission is to promote and facilitate improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing
and economic participation of young Australians aged from 12–25. To this end, headspace aims to be a
signifi cant agent for change in the way that youth mental health issues are responded to across the country.

Section 1.1 Introduction to headspace
The target group
The target group for headspace is all young people in the 12–25 year age range. The criteria for access are not to be more
complicated than this. This age range is the period during which the onset of mental health issues escalates and reaches its peak.
75% of mental health problems occur by the age of 25.
We know that identifying at-risk young people and encouraging them to seek help at an early stage can have a dramatic effect
on the prevention of future mental health problems, the use of acute mental health services, as well as the potential effects that
such problems can have on other areas of life.
The headspace model aims to engage all types of young people, their families and signifi cant others, not just marginalised
young people within a community. We also know that adolescence can be a turbulent time during which there can be quite
marked swings between highs and lows, which can themselves be times of risk if a young person is not provided with
appropriate support.
How will headspace work?
The ‘engine rooms’ of headspace are the funded Communities of Youth Services, or ‘CYS’. These are youth-friendly hubs or
one-stop shops. A CYS has at its core a private practice comprised of medical, allied health and psychiatric practitioners. These
people will work closely with allied health practitioners that have been funded by the Department of Health and Ageing’s Youth
Mental Health Initiative, as well as the headspace staff. There are also practitioners from mental health, drug and alcohol,
and vocational assistance organisations. The models must provide for the direct service provision of the four core streams of
headspace through the hub; primary health care, mental health, Alcohol or Drug services, and social and vocational services.
30 CYS sites have been established across metropolitan, regional and rural Australia since early 2008.
The headspace biopsychosocial model of intervention
Historically substance use and mental health treatment services have not always worked well together, often resulting in
young people with needs across both areas falling between the gaps. Consistent with the view of the Australian Government,
headspace does not view substance use and mental health in isolation of each other. headspace aims to provide a coherent
understanding of mental health issues in a holistic way that is appropriate to the developmental needs of young people. The
headspace biopsychosocial model of intervention seeks to intervene early in the cycle of substance use and mental illness, with
the objective of providing timely, concurrent, integrated and less restrictive evidence-based interventions to improve the physical
and mental health of a young person.
How is Motivational Interviewing and Behaviour Change Technique (MI & BCT) training relevant to a CYS?
Early detection of emerging mental health and/or substance abuse problems among young people is critical to building the
capacity of CYS sites to provide more effective responses. Additionally, the identifi cation of problematic behaviours that support
or compound substance use and/or mental health problems is a necessary component for the CYS site. Although identifi cation
of mental health or substance use problems with ‘fi rst contact’ practitioners, such as general practitioners, community health
workers and school counsellors, may be initiated by the young person, there is often a high level of ambivalence in the young
person towards engaging in the behaviour changes that are needed to effectively manage the problem. Practitioners will need
to feel confi dent in their ability to engage and communicate with a young person on their ambivalence to making changes
related to their mental health or substance abuse problems. To do this, practitioners will need to have a good understanding of
the models and skills of motivation to change relevant to the young person’s readiness to change, and techniques to support the
implementation of behavioural goals.
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Pre-workshop requirements
Prior to attending the One Day workshop participants are expected to:
Complete a pre-workshop online questionnaire as required•
Prepare for the workshop by reading the ‘pre-workshop’ selected readings.•
Participant manual includes:
Pre-workshop readings•
PowerPoint slides and notes pages•
Participant worksheets (10)•
Homework sheet (Module A)•
Homework sheet (Module A & B)•
Evaluation forms•
Practice Review workshop materials including:•
- Mini PowerPoint slides
- Notes pages.
Section 1.2 Training materials and resources

The Participant Manual includes notes pages for the two-hour Practice Review workshop. The Practice Review session reinforces
the skills developed in the workshop modules.
The training package has been developed to be in line with the overall aims of headspace training packages. That is, it aims to
adopt an early intervention model of care, that refl ects content and practice that is evidence-based and theoretically sound, and
provides effective and culturally sensitive approaches to working with young people with mental health and/or substance use issues.
Learning objectives
Following the MI & BCT training, participants will have an:
Understanding of effective models of service delivery for young people with co-morbid mental health and substance use •
problems based on harm minimisation
Ability to appropriately use a range of effective interventions for young people with co-morbid mental health and substance •
use problems, including Motivational Interviewing and cognitive-behavioural treatments
Ability to introduce harm reduction strategies appropriately to young people who present with co-morbid mental health and •
substance use problems
Ability to use Motivational Interviewing appropriately, in order to resolve ambivalence about changing behaviours and •
engaging in treatment, improve the young person’s intrinsic motivation to change, and maintain low levels of treatment
resistance
Understanding of relevant behaviour change models, procedures for assessing readiness to change, and how to apply •
Motivational Interviewing principles with young people to prepare them for cognitive-behavioural treatment interventions
Understanding of the cognitive-behavioural model for treatment of co-occurring mental health and substance use problems•
Ability to undertake an assessment, construct a formulation, and determine appropriate forms of cognitive-behavioural •
intervention for young people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems
Ability to provide effective behavioural interventions for co-occurring mental health and substance use problems in young people.•
Target workshop audience
The following materials have been developed as a face-to-face training package suitable for psychologists, allied health workers
(e.g. social workers, occupational therapists) and others who work with young people (e.g. youth workers, teachers, police) to
develop skills in effective interventions for young people, aged from 12–25 years, with mental health and/or substance use
problems. The specifi c content of this training package is the development of skills in Motivational Interviewing, behaviour
change processes and strategies relevant to the young person’s readiness to change, and goal setting techniques.
The workshop has been constructed for training a maximum of 24 participants at a time.
Section 1.3 Structure and content of the workshop
Overview
The MI & BCT training package is developed as an eight-hour workshop followed by a two-hour Practice
Review session that occurs four weeks following completion of the One Day Workshop. The MI & BCT
material is presented as two half-day modules (A & B) that can be run on the same day, or if more
convenient for the participants, they can be run across different days as two sequential modules. The
assumption for Module B will be that the participants have completed Module A.
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Section 1.4 Training workshop program
Motivational Interviewing & Behaviour Change Techniques
Module A: Half-day training schedule
TIME WORKSHOP OUTLINE
9.00–9.15 Session 1:
Welcome and introductions
9.15–9.45 Session 2:
Awareness of the ambivalent young person
Case example to focus workshop aims – ’Adam’•
Group discussion on typical scenarios•
9.45–10.30 Session 3:
Summary of research evidence on effi cacy of MI & BCT
Background on MI & BCT•
10.30–10.45 Tea break
10.45–11.30 Session 4:
Knowledge on MI and readiness to change model
MI principles and techniques, and readiness to change framework•
11.30–11.45 Session 5:
Practice of MI and readiness to change model
MI demonstration•
11.45–12.15 Session 5 (continued):
Practice of MI and readiness to change model
MI group activity and discussion•
Summary of morning’s training•
12.15–12.30 Session 5 (continued):
Practice of MI and readiness to change model
Summary of Module A skills•
12.30–1.00 Homework activities or lunch

Module B: Half-day training schedule
TIME WORKSHOP OUTLINE
1.00–1.15 Session 6:
Processes of readiness to change model
Revisit case study ’Adam’ as an introduction and summary of previous half-day •
training (MI and readiness to change)
1.15–1.45 Session 6 (continued):
Processes of readiness to change model
Processes for change•
1.45–2.30 Session 7:
Application of the processes of change
Group activity on processes of change for contemplation and preparation stages•
Discussion•
2.30–2.50 Tea break
2.50–3.30 Session 8:
Skills in behaviour change, including goal setting
Specifi c BCT for action stage•
Goal setting•
3.30–3.45 Session 9:
Development of skills in behaviour change
Demonstration of techniques•
3.45–4.30 Session 9 (continued):
Development of skills in behaviour change
Group activities and discussion on action–goal setting techniques•
4.30–4.50 Session 9 (continued):
Development of skills in behaviour change
Review of Module A and Module B•
4.50–5.00 Session 9 (continued):
Development of skills in behaviour change
Strategies to embed training skills into client work•
5.00 Evaluation and fi nish
Section 1.4 Training workshop program
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The MI & BCT training package:
Includes interactive learning activities such as case discussions, role-plays and other simulated practice activities•
Uses an adult and problem-based learning approach•
Is based on theoretically derived information and evidence-based research. •
The workshop activities aim to:
Improve the professional’s communication skills with young people•
Be clinically relevant to the real-life settings•
Assist with the implementation of the new learning in the workplace.•
Specialist trainers
The MI & BCT workshop is designed to be delivered by a specialist trainer recruited through the headspace Service Provider
Education and Training (SPET) program.
Case studies
It is noted that the workshop material has been designed for a maximum of 24 participants. The skill development activities
involve the participants working in groups of three participants. The review by the facilitator of a maximum of eight groups (each
with three participants) during each training activity has been determined to be the maximum number of groups viable for the
effective training of professionals.
The essence of the training is centred on person-focused assessment techniques and intervention development approaches. The
case-based application of knowledge and skills presented in the following materials will train the professional to meet the different
development needs of young people across the age range, the differences in remote as opposed to urban lifestyles, and a range of
socioeconomic circumstances. Various case studies will be provided, but often the most appropriate case studies can be generated
from the training group. The facilitation of training should accommodate cases presented from the local participants, who are
familiar with the socioeconomic and cultural realities of the local area or a particular age group that is the focus of the local
headspace activities. The facilitator is also encouraged to actively seek out case examples that capture issues relevant to the local
community, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and culturally and linguistically diverse people in the area.
Section 1.5 Delivery of workshop
Overview
The workshop will be delivered on a face-to-face basis. The workshop is structured to be the ‘primary
strategy’ to assist in the learning of new information and skills. The Practice Review Workshop comprises
the ‘secondary strategy’ to assist learners in consolidating and extending workshop-based learning into
their work environment, as well as to refl ect upon and discuss implementation issues including any
diffi culties that may arise.

Section 1.6 Evaluation
External evaluation
headspace will evaluate each training package in a pre- and post- online format. The pre-evaluation will take place shortly
before participants attend the workshop. This questionnaire requests information pertaining to the participants’ professional
background and their level of understanding, knowledge, skills and confi dence related to the learning objectives of the training
packages. The post-workshop evaluation will take place in the weeks following the training. The questionnaire will assess the
degree of change in participant responses to the above questions and any perceived change in participant skills in practice as
a result of the training.
Internal evaluation
The headspace Service Provider Education and Training (SPET) program will evaluate the quality of the training delivery from
the participants’ and facilitator’s viewpoint. This evaluation will take place on the day of the workshop.
Facilitators need to ensure that time is made available at the end of the workshop for participants to complete these internal
evaluations. Along with the Facilitator Feedback Form, facilitators are asked to post the participant’s evaluations to the SPET
program as detailed on the evaluation forms.
The Evaluation Forms are located in the Appendice section of this guide.
The principal aim of headspace Service Provider Education and Training (SPET) packages is to
increase practitioners’ skills in engagement and assessment and the use of evidence-based medical and
psychosocial interventions appropriate for young people with mental health and/or related substance use
issues. There is an internal and external evaluation process for headspace SPET packages.
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Section 2Readings

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Section 2 Readings

Section 3PowerPoint slides & notes pages

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Motivational Interviewing &
Behaviour Change Techniques
headspace training program
Slide i
Program structure
• Module A: Motivational Interviewing (four hours)
• Module B: Behaviour Change Techniques (four hours)
• Option 1: run both Modules A & B on a single day
• Option 2: run Module A, followed by Module B within
a two-week period
Slide ii
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages

Aims of the MI & BCT
workshop
Develop interaction skills to support young
people with:
• Identification and resolution of ambivalence
to attitude and behaviour change
• Development of skills that will empower the
young person to successfully achieve
behaviour change.
Slide iii
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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headspace is Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation and is
funded by the Australian Government. headspace is delivering its core
programs and strategies through a consortium of the following organisations:
Youth Services Development Fund – headspace National Office
Centre of Excellence – ORYGEN Research Centre
Service Provider Education and Training – The Australian Psychological
Society in partnership with the Australian General Practice Network
Community Awareness – Brain and Mind Research Institute, University
of Sydney
Slide 1.1
Overview
Why headspace?
The headspace Model
The target group
How will headspace work
How is MI & BCT training relevant to a CYS?
Slide 1.2
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages

Program outline: Module A
9.00–9.15 Welcome and introductions
9.15–9.30 Setting the scene: Case example of
‘Adam’ to focus workshop aims
9.30–9.45 Group discussion on youth scenarios
9.45–10.30 Background on Motivational
Interviewing (MI) and Behaviour
Change Techniques (BCT)
10.30–10.45 Tea break
Slide 1.3
Program outline: Module A
10.45–11.00 Outline readiness to change
framework
11.00–11.30 MI principles and techniques
11.30–11.45 MI demonstration and discussion
11.45–12.15 MI participant activity
12.15–12.30 Discussion of MI activity
Summary of Module A skills
12.30–1.00 Homework activities or lunch
Slide 1.4
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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Program outline: Module B
2.50–3.30 Specific BCT for action stage,
including goal setting
3.30–3.45 Demonstration of techniques
3.45–4.15 Participant activities on action–goal
setting techniques
4.15–4.30 Group discussion of BCT activity
4.30–4.50 Strategies to embed training skills
into client work
4.50–5.00 Review of session and feedback
5.00 Finish
Slide 1.6
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Program outline: Module B
1.00–1.15 Revisit case study ‘Adam’ as an
introduction and summary of
previous half-day training (MI and
readiness to change)
1.15–1.45 Group activity – processes for
change
1.45–2.30 Group discussion of processes for
change activity
2.30–2.50 Tea break
Slide 1.5

Discussion
‘Adam’ scenario:
• Wants life to be better/different
• It’s too hard to change
• Unsuccessful attempts to change behaviours
• Ambivalence to change
Slide 2.2
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Case study:
Adaddadadaamamaammamma
Slide 2.1
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Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Motivational Interviewing is a directive,
patient-centred counselling style for
eliciting behavior change by helping the
client to explore and resolve ambivalence(Rollnick & Miller, 1995)
• Focused
• Goal-directed
Slide 4.1
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Efficacy of Motivational
Interviewing and Behaviour
Change Techniques
• Self-efficacy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Readiness to change
• Behaviour change
Cognitive behaviour interventions
Goal setting
Slide 3.1

Characteristics of MI style
• Seeking to understand the young person’sframe of reference, particularly by reflectivelistening
• Expressing acceptance and affirmation
• Eliciting and selectively reinforcing theyoung person’s own self-motivationalstatement, expressions of problemrecognition, concern, desire, intention tochange, and ability to change
Slide 4.2
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Characteristics of MI style
• Affirming the young person’s freedom of
choice and self-direction
• Monitoring the young person’s degree of
readiness to change
Slide 4.3
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Unhelpful (but common)
assumptions
• This young person wants to change
• This young person’s health situation is a
prime motivating factor for them to change
• A tough approach is always best
• I’m the expert, so the young person will
follow my advice
Slide 4.5
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Aims of Motivational
Interviewing
• Assisting young people to change their
behaviour while respecting their choices
about the change
Slide 4.4

Assessment of
motivation to change
Motivation = Importance + Confidence
Importance – do I want to change?
Confidence – can I change?
Slide 4.6
Assessment of importance
and confidence
On a 1 to 10 scale, how important is it to you
that you can change . . . ?
On a 1 to 10 scale, how confident are you that
you can change . . . ?
Slide 4.7
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Method of motivation to
change behaviours
Increase importance and build confidence
• Why so high?
• What could make you move higher?
• How high would you need to be to give it
a go?
Summarise and help the young person to decide
what to do next.
Slide 4.8

Readiness to change model
• A theoretical model of behaviour change
• Aimed to develop effective interventions to
promote health behaviour change
• Developed by Prochaska, DiClemente and
Norcross (1992)
• Model of intentional change
• Focuses on the decision making process
Slide 4.9
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Components of the
readiness to change model
Stages of change
• 5 temporal dimensions
Outcome measures
• Decisional balance scales
• Temptation scales
Processes of change
• 10 cognitive and behaviour activitiesthat facilitate change
Slide 4.10
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Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Stages of change
1. Pre-contemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
Slide 4.11
No intention to take action in the next 6months
• Uninformed or under-informed ofconsequences of behaviours
• Demoralised about ability to change
Avoid reading, talking or thinking about riskbehaviours
• Perceived as resistant or unmotivated
Pre-contemplation Slide 4.12

Contemplation
• An intention to change in the next 6 months
• Aware of pros and cons of changing
• Ambivalence about change
• Not ready for action oriented programs
Slide 4.13
Preparation
• Intention to take action in the near future
• Joined a health education class
• Bought a self-help book
• Suitable to be recruited for action-orientedprograms, for example:
Smoking cessation program
Weight loss group
Exercise class
Slide 4.14
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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Action
• Overt modifications to health behaviours in
the past 6 months
Smoking cessation
Less than 30% of calories from fat
• Applying change processes frequently
• Vigilance against relapse is critical
Slide 4.15
Maintenance
• Working to prevent relapse
• Applying change processes less frequently
than when in Action stage
• Self-efficacy high
Slide 4.16
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages

Outline of strategies for MI
• Investigating importance
• Investigating confidence
• Looking forward
• Reviewing previous successes
Slide 4.17
MI strategies to increase
readiness to change
Investigating Importance
Ask:
• What are the good things about …?
• What are some of the not so good things
about …?
Summarise pros and cons. Check with the
young person on these.
Ask the young person –
• Where does that leave you now?
Slide 4.18
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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Looking Forward
Looking Forward has the young person envision two
futures:
1. If they continue on the same path without
any changes where they might be five or ten
years from now.
2. If – and the emphasis is on if – they decided
to make a change in their behaviour, what
that future might look like.
Slide 4.19
Looking Forward
The health practitioner’s job is not to argue one
position or another, but rather just elicit the
information and then ask the young person to
comment on these imaginings.
Slide 4.20
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages

Reviewing previous
successes
Here, we build rapport while gathering
information. The health professional avoids a
focus on problems, focusing instead on how
the behaviour goals fit into the young person’s
life.
‘Can we spend a few minutes going through the
last few days. What happened, and how did
you try to work towards achieving your goals?’
Slide 4.21
Demonstration:
large group activity
1. MI assessment
2. MI strategies to increase readiness
to change
Slide 5.1
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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Role-playgroup activity
1. Define goal for change
2. Assess level of
motivation to change
(importance and
confidence)
3. Confirm stage of change
4. Use at least one of the strategies for
change: good/not so good reasons,
reviewing successes, looking forward,
summary of where to next
Slide 5.2
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
Discussion about role-plays
• Key successes
• Challenges
Slide 5.3

Summary of Module A training
Motivation to change
• High ambivalence to change
• Assess the importance to change behaviour in next week
• Assess the confidence to change behaviour in next week
Readiness to change
• Five stages of change
• Strategies to support change
• Understand the young person’s perspective
• Work with the young person’s goals
• Looking forward
• Reinforce any positive change
Slide 5.4
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages
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Homework for Module A
1. Identify two specific existing or new clients with
whom you will use MI skills at the next session
2. Identify a colleague to whom you are going to
explain MI skills
3. Identify a ‘buddy’ in your work group that you can
discuss your progress with the MI skills
• Make a time in the coming week to meet or
telephone
• Discuss your successes and challenges in
using MI with the young person
Slide 5.5
Homework for Module A
continued ...
Questions to answer with your colleague
• Did you use reflective listening and paraphrasing?
• Did you assess the importance and confidence of
the young person to change the chosen
behaviour?
• Could you identify the young person’s stage of
change for a specific behaviour?
• Did you seek to confirm your assessment of the
stages of change with the young person?
• Did you manage your urge to offer ‘solutions’ too
early or unrequested?
Slide 5.6
Section 3 PowerPoint slides & notes pages

Introduction to Module B
Welcome to the second half-day MI and BCT
training session
• Review of training from previous half-day training
(Module A)
• Reflections on the successes and challenges of
implementing the MI skills.
Slide 6.1
Stages of change
Not everyone is ready to change!
1. Pre-contemplation
2. Contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
Slide 6.2
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Processes of change
Covert and overt activities
• Ten common processes
Change is best achieved by appropriatematching of processes with the stage ofchange
Two general categories of processes
• Experiential processes
• Behavioural processes
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Experiential processes
of change
1. Consciousness Raising (increasing awareness)
• I recall information people had given me onhow to stop smoking
2. Dramatic Relief (emotional arousal)
• I react emotionally to warnings aboutsmoking cigarettes
3. Environmental Re-evaluation (social reappraisal)
• I consider the view that smoking can beharmful to the environment
Slide 6.4
Experiential processes
of change
4. Social Liberation (environmental
opportunities)
• I find society changing in ways that
make it easier for the non-smoker
5. Self Re-evaluation (self re-appraisal)
• My dependency on cigarettes makes
me feel disappointed in myself
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Behavioural processes
of change
6. Stimulus Control (re-engineering)
• I remove things from my home thatremind me of smoking
7. Helping Relationship (supporting)
• I have someone who listens when Ineed to talk about my smoking
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Behavioural processes
of change
8. Counter Conditioning (substituting)
• I find that doing other things with myhands is a good substitute for smoking
9. Reinforcement Management (rewarding)
• I reward myself when I don’t smoke
10. Self Liberation (committing)
• I make commitments not to smoke
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Summary as guideline for
processes sheet activity
Assessment of readiness to change
• Stages of change
• Importance and confidence
Strategies to increase readiness to change
• Processes
• Good/not so good
• Looking forward
• Reviewing successes
Slide 7.1
Discussion on
case study activity
• Key successes
• Challenges
Slide 7.2
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Behaviour change techniques
• Goal setting
• Brainstorming
• Action plan
Slide 8.1
Goal setting
• Identifying the goal for change
• Brainstorming for goals
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Brainstorming for goals
Principles:
• There is usually not one but many possible
courses of action
• I can tell you about what has worked for
others
• You will be the best judge of what works
for you
• Let’s go through some on the options
together
Slide 8.3
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General goal Strategy Specific goals
Lose weight Eat less food Cut out fried potatoes
No red meat during the week
No full-fat milk
Start eatingnew foods
Fruit once a day
Replace
certain foods
Baked potatoes or rice instead
of chips
Fruit instead of pudding 3/7 days
Get more
exercise
Walk to work
Arrange sport or dancing once a week
Use the stairs
Example of general goals to
specific goals
(Rollnick, Mason, & Butler, 2000: Health Behaviour Change)
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General goals to
specific goals
Goal Strategy Target
• Lose weight
Slide 8.4

Goal setting: action plan
An action plan should include:
WHAT I am going to do?
HOW MUCH I am going to do?
WHEN I am going to do it?
HOW MANY days in the week I am goingto do it?
For example, this week I will walk (what) aroundthe block (how much) after school (when)three times (how many).
Slide 8.6
Action Plan Form
This week I will:
__________________________________ (what)
__________________________________ (how much)
__________________________________ (when)
__________________________________ (how many times)
How confident am I that I will achieve this?
Circle a number (1 = not at all sure and 10 = certain)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Demonstration of
goal setting
• Behaviour change strategies
• Goal setting
• Assumption of an action stage of change
but suitable for action aroundinformation gathering for preparationof contemplation stages of change
Slide 9.1

Group activity
• The young person will
identify the goal for
discussion (assumes
action stage of change)
• Behaviour change
strategies and goal setting
Slide 9.2
Group activity discussion
• Key successes
• Challenges
Slide 9.3
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Summary of training
Motivational Interviewing
• Communications: reflective listening,
paraphrasing
• Importance & confidence of behaviour
change: 1–10 scale
• Looking forward and previous successes
Stages of readiness to change behaviour
• pre-contemplation, contemplation,
preparation, action and maintenance
Slide 9.4
Summary of training
Processes of change
• Awareness raising, reflection of self and
others on behaviour change
• Preparation and placing in action
behaviours for change
• Monitoring, cues for action, control of
temptations and social support
Goal setting relevant to stage of readiness
to change
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Homework for Module A
1. Identify two specific existing or new clients with
whom you will use MI skills at the next session
2. Identify a colleague to whom you are going to
explain MI skills
3. Identify a ‘buddy’ in your work group that you can
discuss your progress with the MI skills
• Make a time in the coming week to meet or
telephone
• Discuss your successes and challenges in
using MI with a young client
Slide 9.6
Homework for Module
A continued ...
Questions to answer with your colleague:
• Did you use reflective listening and
paraphrasing?
• Did you assess the importance and confidence
of the young person to change the chosen
behaviour?
• Could you identify the young person’s stage of
change for a specific behaviour?
• Did you seek to confirm your assessment of the
stages of change with the young person?
• Did you manage your urge to offer ‘solutions’ too
early or unrequested?
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Practice Review
workshop details
The headspace training program organises a two-hour
follow-on session for participants. Aims of the follow-on
workshop are to:
• Reinforce and extend the MI and BCT skills
developed in Module A and Module B
• Build self-efficacy and capacity of professionals
to use the MI and BCT skills with young people
• Give professionals an opportunity to identify the
success and challenges of using MI and BCT
skills with young people.
Details of date and venue to be announced
by facilitator.
Slide 9.8
Thank you for participating in the
Motivational Interviewing and Behaviour
Change Techniques workshop.
Any final comments?
Slide 9.9
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Section 4Module A & B worksheets

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Section 4 Worksheet 1
Case study:
AdamAdam is a 16-year-old male who has presented to you for help with his alcohol use. He does not want
to attend the appointment but has done so at the recommendation of his school coordinator who has
expressed concern with his performance. Adam enjoys going to school and aspires one day to be a business
man. However, he has a reputation for being ‘the class clown’ and disrupting classroom activities.
Adam’s parents have recently separated and he has been fi nding it diffi cult to cope with the change. His
parents are both well educated and have established careers. He is currently living with his mum and two
older brothers. He doesn’t really get along with his mum but has a good bond with his eldest brother, who
has been worried about Adam’s moods being up and down.
Adam goes to parties every weekend with his mates. They consume excessive amounts of alcohol and
Adam often ends up drunk. Sometimes he passes out when he gets home and experiences memory loss.
Adam fi nds that drinking alcohol makes him relax. When he is drunk he doesn’t get as angry and gets
along better with other people. He has begun having a drink every day to achieve this relaxed feeling,
consuming about six cans of pre-mixed drinks during a single day.
Adam is physically well-built and enjoys playing football on the weekends. He has the potential to play for
his district team if he attends training more regularly and applies himself. This has been quite diffi cult for
him lately as he has been feeling depressed. Adam knows that his drinking is unhealthy but doesn’t see any
way of changing it.
Notes:

Motivational Interviewing techniques
1. Listen, build rapport – attitude of being respectful of the adolescent’s values and choices.
2. Acknowledge your agenda and the adolescent’s diffi culty or ambivalence to changing behaviour –Motivational Interviewing
involves collaboration.
3. Focus on a specifi c behaviour.
4. Assess importance and confi dence:
(a) ‘How important is it to you, from 1 to 10?’
(b) ‘Why so high?’
(c) ‘What would help you move higher?’
(d) ‘How high would you have to be to change?’
(e) ‘How confi dent are you about changing, from 1 to 10?’
(f) ‘What would help you move higher?’
(g) ‘How high would you have to be to change?’
5. Work on importance
(a) ‘What are the good things about the behaviour?’
(b) ‘What are some of the not so good things about it?’
(c) Share information about risks: don’t push information, ask what they already know, whether they want to know more, allow
the adolescent to make the links
(d) Manage resistance: Shift focus, express empathy, emphasise the adolescent’s control, summarise their position
(e) Summarise the pros and cons.
6. Build confi dence
(a) ‘Is there anything you’ve found helpful in previous attempts to change?’
(b) ‘Is there anything you can learn from any problems you had last time you tried?’
(c) ‘Do you know other people who have successfully changed? What worked for them?’
7. Summarise both importance and confi dence with ‘Where does that leave you now?’
(a) I’m not interested in changing
- ‘As your psychologist/health professional I am concerned about … (my agenda). If you want to discuss this again,
I’m here’
(b) I want to do it!
- Talk about how (practical aspects/preparation stage of change/goal setting)
(c) I’ve got to think about it
- Encourage refl ection/monitoring (processes relevant to contemplation stage of change/diary/pros and cons).
Reference
Litt, J., Ali, R., & Pols, R. (1993). Brief alcohol intervention in general practice: Motivational Interviewing techniques
[video recording]. Flinders Media.
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Section 4 Worksheet 3
Case study:
SallySally is a 17-year-old female who is in the fi nal year of secondary school. She has presented to you at the
recommendation of her parents after they caught her smoking cigarettes behind the garage before school.
Sally is an only child and lives at home with her parents. Sally gets along with her parents quite well but
feels they hold quite high expectations of her. Her parents want her to go to university to study Law but she
feels that she cannot achieve a high enough university entrance score.
Sally has been extremely anxious and stressed about her studies and her future. Sometimes she feels as
though there is no point continuing her education, and that she is a failure. Most of Sally’s friends do not
intend to go to university so do not study and spend most of their weekends going to parties. She fi nds her
friends don’t understand the pressures in her life, or why she won’t go out with them every weekend.
One of Sally’s friends introduced her to cigarettes, telling Sally they would help her to relax after school
or whilst studying. All of her friends smoke and Sally thought that taking up smoking might eliminate
her reputation for being a ‘good girl’. Sally fi nds smoking reduces her anxiety, helping her cope with the
stresses of studying, and pressures from her parents. Sally now smokes at least one pack a day and feels
she can’t get by without them.
On the rare occasion that she goes out on a weekend with her friends, she has experimented with
marijuana. Whilst at the moment she reports that she does not use marijuana regularly, she does have easy
access to it, and she could see herself using it to manage her stress. Sally recognises that she is not coping
well and needs help with other ways of handling her stress, but she feels she has already tried everything,
and it is useless.
Notes:

Section 4 Worksheet 4
Case study:
AdrianAdrian is a 19-year-old male who presents to you because his girlfriend is concerned about his binge
drinking habit. He doesn’t really want to be at the appointment with you but his girlfriend is threatening to
end their relationship unless he seeks some help.
Adrian is an apprentice plumber and enjoys his work. His boss believes that Adrian is doing really well and
is planning to continue employing him after he fi nishes the apprenticeship. Adrian is a keen soccer player
who plays regularly in the district B team, with an occasional position in the A team. He has developed a
good friendship group through soccer.
Adrian goes to nightclubs every Friday night with his soccer mates, but does not take his girlfriend. He
often gets into fi ghts with people at the clubs and gets kicked out. Adrian often feels quite ‘hung over’
the next day and fi nds it hard to perform well at soccer. He has been cautioned by the police recently for
drunken and disorderly behaviour.
Adrian lives at home with his parents and fi ve brothers and sisters. His parents migrated from Italy before
the children were born and still maintain conservative views on behaviour. Adrian reports that his drinking
and aggressive behaviour is disgracing his family. His parents have threatened that if he comes home
intoxicated next weekend he will be no longer be welcome in their home.
Adrian thinks that his behaviour and drinking is pretty harmless. He recognises that some weekends he
does go overboard, but he doesn’t want to lose his family or girlfriend over his drinking.
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An important aspect of the training in Motivational Interviewing is the determination of opportunities and supports to practice
the skills outside the training session. If we want to be good at anything, we need to practice. Additionally, the reinforcement of
skills learnt in the training cannot be left to chance.
Strategies to reinforce your training:
1. Identify two specifi c existing or new clients with whom you will use MI skills at the next session
2. Identify a colleague to whom you are going to explain the skills of MI
3. Identify a ‘buddy’ in your work group that you can discuss your progress with the MI skills
- Make a time in the coming week to meet or telephone
- Discuss your successes and challenges in using MI with an adolescent client.
Questions to answer with your colleague
Did you use refl ective listening and paraphrasing?•
Did you assess the importance and confi dence of the adolescent to change the chosen behaviour?•
Could you identify the adolescent’s stage of change for a specifi c behaviour?•
Did you seek to confi rm your assessment of the stages of change with the adolescent?•
Did you manage your urge to offer ‘solutions’ too early or unrequested?•
Homework sheet for Module A Motivational Interviewing skills

Readiness to Change stages and processes sheet
The following examples of discussion and intervention focus on a range of behaviour change goals including reduced alcohol
and drug usage, increasing healthy eating, exercise and school/work attendance, positive social interactions, improved sleeping
patterns and quitting smoking.
STAGES OF
CHANGE PROCESSES SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
Pre-
contemplation
Processes in this stage need to encourage thinking about change, not doing change.
Do not make a plan for action.
Consciousness
raising
1. Keeping a diary of their weekly sleeping patterns (e.g. bed time, wake time, sleep
duration, sleep quality, etc.).
2. Recalling information about the desired amount of sleep per night for a person
their age.
3. Discuss with the person the benefi ts of exercise to help negative mood.
4. Evaluate the cost of drugs/alcohol and poor education outcomes over time versus
the adoption of healthy and achievement oriented behaviours.
5. Budget the cost of a holiday with mates.
6. Recalling a time when energy levels were good and identify the behaviours from
that time.
Dramatic
relief
1. Discuss that any reduction in substance abuse (marijuana, alcohol, nicotine, hard
drugs) can help to feel more in control.
2. All things being equal, people without addictions are happier and healthier.
3. Reacting emotionally to the idea that they will miss out on success and good friends
if they continue along the current life-path.
4. Discuss the consequences of continued drug habits even in terms of worst-case
scenarios.
5. Refl ection of the emotions around being a person with a substance abuse problem.
That is, how do you feel, how do people treat you and how could life be better?
6. Feeling disappointed that they will no longer be smoking and this may restrict
shared activities such as catching up with work colleagues or friends when at the
’smoking spot’. They can still go out with friends and enjoy themselves without
going outside for a smoke.
7. Discuss that managing a substance abuse problem can be of value to them and not
just for the practitioner or their family.
8. Substance abuse control gives the young person more power and fl exibility with
their life choices.
9. It is safer for the person to know their blood alcohol levels.
Environmental
re-Evaluation
1. Discuss feeling disappointed that travelling, having a good job and other activities
is not possible because they have a substance abuse problem.
2. Thinking that avoidance of physical exercise is hurting their partner and family by
restricting the possibility of shared activities (picnics, beach trips, bush walking, etc).
3. Think about the avoidance of social activities that arise from being unable to
commit to healthy food choices.
4. Consider the future impact your substance abuse problem is having on others –
the burden for family and friends.
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STAGES OF
CHANGE PROCESSES SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
Contemplation Processes in this stage are focused on encouraging the contemplation to extend into preparation.
Get them to try healthy behaviour changes in small amounts and then perhaps to build up.
Self re-
evaluation
1. Discuss the benefi ts of not drinking alcohol for themselves and their family (impact
of alcohol long-term and quality of life).
2. Would their self-image be improved if they saw themselves as a less-drunk person
at parties?
3. Evaluate and list the barriers of having a weekend without drugs or alcohol and
determine things that can be changed easily and those that will take time.
4. Think about how a change in smoking can impact on other chronic problems you
may experience such as asthma.
5. Would their self-image be improved if they had more control over their use of drugs
and alcohol?
Preparation Processes in this stage are focused on developing achievable goals or preparation to extend into action.
Build on any previous healthy behaviours and encourage goal-focused strategies.
Self-liberation 1. Discuss with the person the types of activities they are planning to start to help
improve their mental health.
2. Discuss the benefi ts of making goals and a plan.
3. List the types of activities they have found particularly enjoyable in the past
(e.g. exercise, socialising, fi lms, etc.).
4. Discuss career options to assist in making a decision to attend school regularly.
5. Enrol in karate or group exercise classes.
6. To inform yourself of the wealth of opportunities available.
7. Sign a contract to eat healthily for a certain number of meals per week or snack on
healthy alternatives.
8. Discuss the benefi ts of making goals and a plan.
Social
liberation
1. Discuss the support available to have a substance-free weekend.
2. Identify the support available for avoiding depressed or anxious feelings.
3. Form a new group of friends.
4. Involve a family member in assisting you to make healthy choices.
Action Processes in this stage are focused on achieving the set goals.
Develop possible strategies for managing the barriers to regular healthy behaviours.
Stimulus
control
1. Discuss associating physical activity with a specifi c daily activity (’pairing’ the
activities together).
2. Have a list of future outings that will be enjoyed as mood improves
3. Have friends who do not offer cigarettes to you.
4. Improve your personal hygiene and appearance (hair cut, clean clothes etc.).
5. Work on planning small time-limited exposure to high risk situations.
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STAGES OF
CHANGE PROCESSES AIMS AND SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
Counter-
conditioning
1. Organise alternative social activities to replace high risk situations (e.g. work/school
nights, weekends, holidays etc.).
2. Substitute sitting watching an afternoon program on TV with going for a run.
3. Have a number of different activities planned.
4. Drink water in place of having a cigarette.
5. Walk to meet friends to establish a healthy mindset before you are offered cigarettes.
6. Allow oneself a reward if goals are achieved (e.g. download music, new running shoes).
7. Substitute drinking a second can of beer with a glass of water.
Helping
Relationships
1. Participate in a sporting group to get support in developing an interest in new
activities.
2. Arrange a health coach (could be a friend) to discuss the healthy living program
(goals, barriers, motivational strategies, etc).
3. Arrange an exercise partner to whom they can compare progress.
4. Have regular reviews with your practitioners.
5. Develop relationships with new friends.
6. Recruit supportive family members to ride the roller-coaster with you, provide
stability.
Reinforcement
Management
1. Encourage family and friends to acknowledge the improvements in health,
behaviours and mood.
2. Identify the benefi ts in health (energy, sleep etc) from being substance free.
3. Close friends and family might be aware of an improvement in mood since
exercising and changing substance use behaviours.
4. Keep a diary of positive comments people are making about your choices or
appearance changes.
5. Examine the benefi ts of better health in terms of time management: less time
sleeping, recovering from a hangover etc.
6. Give yourself health rewards.
7. Family and friends are not worrying about you so much.
Maintenance Processes in this stage aim to reinforce the action stage of behaviour change.
Reinforce behaviour change strategies that maintain healthy behaviours.
Relapse
prevention
1. Set up a system of visual reminders in the bedroom or on the mobile phone.
2. Give an example to young children that drug habits could have an impact on the
child’s future health.
3. Develop a plan if behaviours start to slide.
4. Construct a support system if new behaviours begin to diminish
5. Refl ect on the benefi ts of the change on a regular basis.
6. Plan new and healthy adventures (e.g. holidays, study, work etc).
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Section 4 Worksheet 6
Case study:
EloiseEloise is a 15-year-old female who lives in a small country town with her parents and older sister. She is
not close to her sister but gets along well with her parents. Eloise does quite well at school and has been
learning to play the guitar for the past four years.
Eloise feels self-conscious about her appearance and very aware of how the other girls at school look and
behave. She has been struggling with being overweight since she started secondary school. She has two
classmates that she spends time with in class and during the breaks. She doesn’t spend any time with them
outside of school. Eloise has never had a boyfriend and feels attracted to another female student at her
school. She has not told anyone as she believes that her friends and family will hate her if she comes out as
being gay.
Her sister’s boyfriend has been supplying her with marijuana for the past six months as he felt sorry
that she didn’t have a social life. Eloise reported that the marijuana helped her to deal with the stress
associated with her poor social life and sexuality.
Eloise has recently been feeling depressed and unlike herself. Whilst the marijuana makes it easier for
Eloise to cope with her sexuality, she is fi nding it harder to concentrate at school and feeling increasingly
distant from her family. She is really unhappy and feels that she wants things to change.
Notes:

Section 4 Worksheet 7
Case study:
RachelRachel is a 19-year-old female who has presented to you for help with her smoking at the suggestion of
her partner. She has a nine-month old baby and is not coping with the stress of her new role as a parent.
She fi nds that the baby’s ever-changing routine and demands for attention are wearing her out.
Rachel dropped out of her fi nal year of high school when she found that she was pregnant. She began
working as a receptionist at that time to earn money for when the baby arrived. Since the baby has arrived
her work has allowed her to continue her employment one day a week. Her mother looks after the baby
whilst she works. Rachel currently lives with her partner who is very supportive of her and the baby,
however, he works long days and most of the time Rachel fi nds herself at home caring for the baby alone.
Both Rachel’s parents are supportive, but they want Rachel to take responsibility for the baby herself and
not rely on them for babysitting.
Rachel began smoking as a 15-year-old and only quit when she learnt she was pregnant. The stress of
caring for a child has led Rachel to take up smoking again to calm her nerves during the day. Her partner
is concerned that Rachel’s smoking will harm the baby and has urged her to quit. Rachel agrees with her
partner’s concerns but doesn’t know how to cope without the cigarettes.
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Section 4 Worksheet 8
Action Plan Form
When writing my action plan, I like it to include:
What• I am going to do
How• much I am going to do
When• I am going to do it
How• many days in the week I am going to do it.
Goal
Chew gum instead of smoking. For example, this week I will chew gum (what) everyday (how much) when I feel tempted to
smoke (when) for at least ten minutes or until the cravings reduce (how many).
This week I will:
How confi dent am I that I will achieve this? Circle a number: 1 = not at all sure, 10 = certain
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
DAY TICK OFF COMMENTS
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Tips to help me achieve my goal
Fit my goal into my everyday lifestyle•
Create reminders to help me remember my goal•
Remove temptations•
Use a diary to monitor my progress (such as the table on the front of this page)•
Make a written agreement between me and someone else•
Change my habits bit by bit•
Copy someone else•
Imagine a pleasant scene•
Reward myself when I achieve my goal.•
I can choose to use more than one tip for each goal. Different goals may need different tips.
Reference
Kelly, J., Menzies, D., & Taylor, S. (2003). The Good Life Club: Methodology and study design – a discussion. The Australian Journal
of Primary Health, 9, 186–191.
(what)
(how much)
(when)
(how many times)

Case study:
KatrinaKatrina is a 21-year-old female who has presented to you for help with her drug habit at the
recommendation of her sister. Katrina lives at home with her mother and sister; her father was an alcoholic
and the family no longer have contact with him. Katrina is close to her mother and sister.
Katrina is currently unemployed as she was made redundant when the company in which she was working
was downsized. She receives unemployment benefi ts and spends a lot of her day at home watching TV.
Prior to losing her job, Katrina would regularly go to nightclubs on weekends and spend time with her close
friendship group. Whilst she didn’t have a steady boyfriend, there were always boys interested in dating her.
Katrina started smoking marijuana on a daily basis since being unemployed. Katrina’s sister and her friends
are concerned about her as she rarely leaves the house or socialises. Katrina feels depressed by her life and
feels that her future is hopeless. Katrina recognises that she has a fairly low quality of life and doesn’t want
her friends to worry, but she doesn’t know how to change things.
Notes:
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Section 4 Worksheet 10
Case study:
TravisTravis is a 20-year-old male who has presented to you because his girlfriend is anxious that he is becoming
addicted to marijuana and wasting his life. Travis completed high school two years ago with moderate
results. He is now concentrating on pursuing a football career full-time in a league-level training squad.
Travis lives at home with his parents and younger sister. Travis is really close to his mum who has recently
been diagnosed with cancer. He used binge drinking to cope with stressful events in his teen years, but is now
using marijuana. Travis feels that smoking marijuana numbs his mind and stops him worrying about his mum.
Travis has noticed that he has been feeling depressed but has not had any suicidal thoughts or experienced
any psychotic episodes. Travis feels as though he is slipping back into the old coping patterns he used as a
teenager and recognises he needs help. He just feels that there is no other way to deal with his mother’s
medical condition.
Notes:

An important aspect of the training in Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Behaviour Change Techniques (BCT) is the
determination of opportunities and supports to practice the skills outside the training session. If we want to be good at
anything, we need to practice. Additionally, the reinforcement of skills learnt in the training cannot be left to chance.
Strategies to reinforce your training:
Identify two specifi c existing or new clients with whom you will use MI & BCT skills at the next session•
Identify a colleague to whom you are going to explain the skills of MI & BCT•
Identify a ‘buddy’ in your work group that you can discuss your progress with the MI & BCT skills•
Make a time in the coming week to meet or telephone•
Discuss your successes and challenges in using MI & BCT with an adolescent client.•
Questions to answer with your colleague:
Did you use refl ective listening and paraphrasing?•
Did you assess the importance and confi dence of the adolescent to change the chosen behaviour?•
Could you identify the adolescent’s stage of change for a specifi c behaviour?•
Did you seek to confi rm your assessment of the stages of change with the adolescent?•
Did you manage your urge to offer solutions too early or unrequested?•
Did you use appropriate processes for the readiness to change?•
Did you use goal setting?•
Did you use an Action Plan form?•
Homework sheet for Module B Motivational Interviewing skills & behaviour change techniques
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Section 5Participant Evaluation Form


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Section 5 Participant Evaluation Form
Participant Evaluation Form
Participant professional background
Please specify headspace CYS location
1. HOW WOULD YOU RATE THE WORKSHOP IN ASSISTING YOU TO MEET
THE FOLLOWING LEARNING OBJECTIVES?
NOT
MET
= 1
PARTIALLY
MET
= 2
ENTIRELY
MET
= 3
(a) An understanding of effective models of service delivery for young people
with co-morbid mental health and substance use problems based on harm
minimisation
1 2 3
(b) An ability to appropriately use a range of effective interventions for young
people with co-morbid mental health and substance use problems, including
Motivational Interviewing and cognitive-behavioural treatments
1 2 3
(c) An ability to introduce harm reduction strategies appropriately to young
people who present with co-morbid mental health and substance use problems1 2 3
(d) An ability to use Motivational Interviewing appropriately, in order to
resolve ambivalence about changing behaviours and engaging in treatment,
improve the young person’s intrinsic motivation to change and maintain low
levels of treatment resistance
1 2 3
(e) an understanding of relevant behaviour change models, procedures for
assessing readiness to change and how to apply Motivational Interviewing
principles with young people to prepare them for cognitive-behavioural
treatment interventions
1 2 3
(f) An understanding of the cognitive-behavioural model for treatment of co-
occurring mental health and substance use problems1 2 3
(g) an understanding to undertake an assessment, construct a formulation and
determine appropriate forms of cognitive-behavioural intervention for young
people with co-occurring mental health and substance use problems
1 2 3
(h) An ability to provide effective cognitive-behavioural interventions for co-
occurring mental health and substance use problems in young people1 2 3
2. Please rate to what degree your learning needs were met?
1 2 3
Not met Partially met Entirely met
3. Please rate to what degree this activity is relevant to your practice:
1 2 3
Not relevant Partially relevant Entirely relevant
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4. Please rate the following statements according to what is true for you.
FACILITATOR
STRONGLY
DISAGREE
= 1
DISAGREE
= 2
NEITHER
AGREE
NOR
DISAGREE
= 3
AGREE
= 4
STRONGLY
AGREE
= 5
The facilitator was prepared and delivered
the workshop in a timely manner 1 2 3 4 5
The facilitator’s style was engaging
and interesting1 2 3 4 5
The facilitator was confi dent and
knowledgeable in their presentation1 2 3 4 5
The facilitator was open to further
questioning and provided quality feedback1 2 3 4 5
SLIDE PRESENTATION
The number of slides was appropriate for
the content1 2 3 4 5
The slide presentation was informative
and interesting1 2 3 4 5
The slides presented matched the content
of the discussion and/or activity1 2 3 4 5
APPROPRIATENESS OF CONTENT
There was an appropriate balance between
knowledge and skill development activities1 2 3 4 5
The case studies/role-plays were
relevant and applicable to the content
of the workshop
1 2 3 4 5
The case studies/role-plays contributed
further to my understanding of the
topic discussed
1 2 3 4 5
The content of the training was appropriate
to my work place needs1 2 3 4 5
Notwithstanding my prior knowledge,
the training material was useful
and appropriate
1 2 3 4 5
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5. If you rated any of the above items in section 1 as ’Strongly Disagree’ or ’Disagree’ could you please explain why?
6. What changes would you suggest to improve the workshop?
7. Would you like to make any further comments?
Thank you for completing this form.
Please hand the Evaluation Form in to the facilitator prior to leaving the workshop.
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Refer participants to the following worksheets that form part of the MI & BCT workshop. These are found in Section 4 of the
Participant Manual and include:
Worksheet 2: Motivational Interviewing Techniques•
Worksheet 5: Readiness to Change Stages and Process Sheet•
Worksheet 8: Action Plan Form.•
Inform participants that they will be referring to the information contained in these worksheets as part of discussion throughout
the workshop.
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Motivational Interviewing &
Behaviour Change Techniques
headspace Practice Review Workshop
Slide 1
Aims of the Practice
Review Workshop
• Reinforce and extend the MI and BCT skills
developed in Module A and Module B
• Build self-efficacy and capacity of
professionals to use the MI and BCT skills
with young people
• Give professionals an opportunity to identify
the success and challenges of using MI and
BCT skills with young people
Slide 2
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Summary of training
Motivational Interviewing
• Communications: reflective listening,
paraphrasing
• Importance & confidence of behaviour
change: 1–10 scale
• Looking forward
• Previous successes
Stages of readiness to change behaviour
• Pre-contemplation, contemplation,
preparation, action, maintenance
Slide R1
Summary of training
Processes of change
• Awareness raising, reflection of self and
others on behaviour change
• Preparation and placing in action behaviours
for change
• Monitoring, cues for action, control of
temptations, social support
Goal setting
• Relevant to stage of readiness to change
Slide R2
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Homework from workshop
1. Identify two specific existing or new clients with
whom you will use MI skills at the next session
2. Identify a colleague to whom you are going to
explain MI skills
3. Identify a ‘buddy’ in your work group that you
can discuss your progress with the MI skills
• Make a time in the coming week to meet
or telephone
• Discuss your successes and challenges
in using MI with a young client
Slide R3
Homework from workshop
Questions to answer with your colleague
• Did you use reflective listening and paraphrasing?
• Did you assess the importance and confidence
of the young person to change the chosen
behaviour?
• Could you identify the young person’s stage
of change for a specific behaviour?
• Did you seek to confirm your assessment of the
stages of change with the young person?
• Did you manage your urge to offer ‘solutions’
too early or unrequested?
Slide R4
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Activity:
Review of skill development
Each practitioner to report in turn on:
•Key successes and challenges in using Motivational
Interviewing and Behaviour Change Techniques with
their clients
•Discussing the training with colleagues
•Adapting the skills within professional current
practice
•Using skills within the organisational structure
of the workplace
Slide R5
Additional topics for
discussion
• Future support for skill development
• Opportunities and needs for further training
Slide R6
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Thank you for participating in the
headspace Motivational Interviewing and
Behaviour Change Techniques workshop
Practice Review follow-up session
Any final comments?
Slide R7
Section 6 Mini PowerPoint slides & notes pages