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This presentation provides specialized training in Motivational Interviewing (MI) for professionals working with individuals with ADHD and their families. MI is an evidence-based approach that enhances treatment engagement by fostering autonomy, self-efficacy, and strong provider-patient alliances. The training includes lectures, discussions, activities, videos, and role-plays. Participants will learn to address motivational challenges in ADHD, use MI strategies to boost engagement, tailor treatment to personal goals, manage non-adherence, and support patient autonomy throughout the treatment process.
About the session
This presentation will be aimed at providing specialized training in the delivery of Motivational Interviewing to professionals and trainees working with clients who have ADHD and their families. Individuals with attention, executive functioning, and motivation difficulties often struggle to engage in interventions such as medication, educational interventions, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and ADHD coaching. Motivational Interviewing is an empirically supported technique that builds patient (and parent) engagement in treatment by targeting relational aspects of the provider-patient relationships as well as consideration of the change process during treatment.
The goal of ADHD treatments are to adequately manage day to day symptoms and impairments. MI for ADHD empowers patients to take the reins of their own treatment by:
- Promoting patient autonomy
- Building self-efficacy
- Strengthening alliance between providers and patients
- Empowering patients to make their own decisions about ADHD care
The training will involve a combination of didactics, small and large group discussions, hands on activities, videos, and role-plays.
Learning outcomes
- Identify how ADHD undermines patient motivation and follow-through in treatment.
- Use Motivational Interviewing strategies to increase patient motivation to engage in ADHD treatment.
- Enhance patient awareness of their personal goals, values, and priorities related to treatment and improved functioning.
- Create a forward-focused treatment environment that builds patient self-efficacy and momentum in treatment.
- Apply strategies to address non-adherence and oppositional attitudes toward medication and psychotherapeutic treatments.
- Take an autonomy support approach to patient treatment planning, delivery of psychoeducation, and skills training.
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About the speaker
Dr. Margaret Sibley is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an attending clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has authored over 100 scholarly publications on ADHD. She is Secretary of the American Professional Society for ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD) and a Professional Advisory Board Member for Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD). She is the author of Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).