| Motivational work with offenders should not be something which occurs only ‘within the box’ of an offending behaviour programme or one to one supervision setting. Developing and maintaining Motivation is a critical element in facilitating offenders to engage with an examination of their own behaviour and working on changing that behaviour, and in preventing drop out or attrition from programmes or treatment.
What is Motivational Interactions training?
Developed by ignition for the Corrections service in the state of Victoria, Australia, ignition is the only provider of Motivational Interactions training in the UK. Motivational Interactions training provides staff with a systematic approach for seizing on the brief opportunities for motivational communication with offenders which present themselves in everyday interaction, especially within secure settings. It provides the skills and understanding to maximise the rehabilitative and motivational potential of day-to-day brief contacts through informal interactions with offenders, such as casual conversations on the wing or in responses to offender conversation .
Who is the training suitable for?
Motivational Interactions training is a Level 1 course suitable for all staff whose main role is not rehabilitation or therapy or does not include formalised or extended one to one interviews (see our information on Forensic Motivational Interviewing), but who have extensive contact with offenders such as residential custodial staff. It is obviously suitable for staff whose role includes closer contact with offenders, such as personal and Senior Officers, staff involved with group programmes, or close supervision units. The training supports a pro social modelling agenda in line with ‘what works’. The training provides skills and strategies for brief motivational work at ALL stages of the Cycle of Change: Pre Contemplation, Contemplation, Action, Maintenance, Lapse and Relapse.
Concepts
- Opportunistic ‘Micro burst’ usage of the approach
- Motivation as state not trait
- Resistance as a two-way process
- Stages of the Cycle of Change
- Pro social modelling
Skills
- Core skills of Reflection, Summary and Affirmation
- Rolling with Resistance
- Identifying the strategy appropriate to the stage of the Cycle of Change
- Hearing and developing Change Talk
- Using Key questions
Strategies
- Clarifying costs and benefits of behaviour
- Exploring the decisional balance
- Increasing importance and confidence of offender for change
- Developing goals and targets
- Lapse prevention
- Relapse analysis
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