Motivational Interviewing in Social Work Practice

Melinda Hohman, PhD, MSW, is Professor in the School of Social Work at San Diego State University, where she has taught since 1995. She teaches courses in social work practice, substance abuse treatment, and motivational interviewing, both at the graduate and undergraduate level. Dr. Hohman’s research interests include substance abuse assessment and treatment services and the overlap of substance abuse treatment and child welfare services. She has been a trainer in motivational interviewing since 1999, training community social workers, child welfare workers, probation officers, and addiction counselors across the United States.

1. Why Social Work and Motivational Interviewing?
2. The Heart of Motivational Interviewing
3. Motivational Interviewing and the Engagement and Assessment Process, with Hilda Loughran & Sally Mathiesen
4. Supporting Self-Efficacy, or What If They Don’t Think They Can Do It?, with Stéphanie Wahab & Katie Slack
5. Expressing Empathy: Communicating Understanding (Even When It’s Hard)
6. Developing Discrepancy: Using Motivational Interviewing in a Group Setting to Increase Ambivalence
7. Rolling with Resistance: Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents, or, "You Can’t Make Me", with Elizabeth Barnett & Audrey M. Shillington
8. Building Collaboration: Motivational Interviewing in Community Organization Work, with Mike Eichler
9. Integrating Motivational Interviewing into Social Work Practice, with Rhoda Emlyn-Jones, Bill James, & Cristine Urquhart
10. Final Thoughts: Lessons Learned from Training and Teaching Motivational Interviewing