How to Use This Chapter
This chapter provides guidance for instructors on how to teach BHSSs evidence-based Motivational Interviewing (MI) strategies to engage patients effectively and foster positive behavior change. BHSSs will learn to use MI in community-based practice across various settings, serving people experiencing a range of medical and behavioral health challenges. This chapter includes key teaching points, sample activities, assessment suggestions, and links to supplementary materials. Key teaching points provide basic, didactic information that should be conveyed to students. The sample activities are designed to promote applied learning that may be assessed for fidelity when paired with the coding systems suggested in this chapter. Various formative and summative activities and assessment strategies are offered in each section below. Instructors might consider tailoring the material to cover the application of MI within more specific service settings or patient populations, as relevant.