BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ac5b27b6816dd75c651008266b54eade42 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:March 2022 Workshop: That Darn Cat! Promoting Change through the Language of Motivational Interviewing DESCRIPTION:
Presented by Deirdra Frum-Vassallo, Psy.D.
“Change tal k” is a Motivational Interviewing expression that refers to language a clie nt uses that favors change. Simply spotting a patient’s change talk is not MI. Rather recognizing the type of change talk a client is using can help a clinician chose how to respond intentionally. Recognizing, responding to, and eliciting change talk are three crucial skills practitioners must devel op and apply to help steer a conversation towards increasingly action orien ted change talk. Whether in the context of a brief intervention or in an on going counseling relationship, when people use change talk to voice their i ntrinsic motivations, they are more likely to make a change. This training will zero in on the technical aspects of recognizing, responding to, and el iciting change talk. Experiential exercises and case examples are built in throughout, offering an opportunity to practice skills.
Deirdra Frum-Vassallo completed her doctorate of Psychology at La Sa lle University in Philadelphia, PA with a concentration in health psycholog y. She completed her clinical internship with the Hudson Valley VA healthca re system and completed her postdoctoral training with an emphasis on prima ry care and health psychology with the VA New York Harbor. Dr. Frum-Vassall o has been working in health psychology at the Northport VA medical center for nearly a decade. She is currently in the role of Health Behavior Coordi nator working developing and implementing preventative medicine programming such as smoking cessation, various chronic illness support groups and stre ss reduction. Dr. Frum-Vassallo is the director of clinical training for a postdoctoral fellowship with an emphasis on health promotion disease preven tion and primary care interprofessional work. She has been trained extensiv ely by VA and National Center of Prevention (NCP) in Motivational Interview ing and currently is the Regional Trainor for Motivational Interviewing for the Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 spanning northern and southern N ew York State as well as New Jersey Veteran Administrations. She is also a member of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and internat ional organization committed to promoting high-quality motivational Intervi ewing (MI) practices.