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Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training

Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training

ComMIt, comprehensive motivational interviewing training for health care professionals, is an e-learning program based on real-life scenarios and discusses practical ways to integrate motivational interviewing into pharmacy practice. Motivational interviewing is a powerful set of communication principles and skills and an effective way of being with patients to help them achieve better health outcomes. Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based, effective strategy for improving patient adherence to health behaviors and outcomes.

Program Summary

ComMIt, comprehensive motivational interviewing training for health care professionals, is an e-learning program based on real-life scenarios and discusses practical ways to integrate motivational interviewing into pharmacy practice.

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians will gain the skills necessary to help patients achieve better health outcomes.

Activity type: Knowledge-based

Target Audience: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in all practice settings

Pricing
  • Member Price: $199
  • Nonmember Price: $399

If your company or organization is interested in offering this program to your pharmacists or student pharmacists, please contact Chris McKerrow.


Learning Objectives & Module Details
At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Module 1: Motivational Interviewing: Introduction and Background

At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:

  • Explain why motivational interviewing was incorporated into health care practice.
  • Elaborate on how training health care professionals in motivational interviewing is different than training psychologists.
  • Distinguish between traditional approaches to motivational interviewing and the approach taken in this e-learning program.
  • Differentiate between practitioner-centered and patient-centered care.
  • Explain why motivational interviewing is a patient-centered approach to care.
Module 2: The Human Brain and Social Threat

At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:

  • Discuss the relationship between the human brain, threat, patients who are ambivalent about or resistant to behavior change, and the use of motivational interviewing.
  • Explain how social threat and face loss can result in patients discounting or dismissing health information.
  • Differentiate between competence and autonomy face loss and their impact on relational resistance.
  • Describe how feeling threatened in a health care setting can undermine the patient-provider relationship and the patient’s ability to adopt behavior change.
  • Explain how feelings are shaped by the meaning assigned to actions and words.
Module 3: Sense-Making and Practical Reasoning

At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:

  • Explain how sense-making creates motivation for change.
  • Describe the relationship between sense-making, the resulting conclusion, and the decision about behavior.
  • Apply skills to patient cases by identifying the appropriate sense-making of the patient, the patient’s reasoning, the concern(s) or issue(s) of the patient, and appropriate information to address the patient’s concern(s) or issue(s).
Module 4: Developing Rapport and the Synergy of Motivational Interviewing

At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:

  • Explain why rapport is crucial to behavior change.
  • Identify how to develop rapport in each step of the motivational interviewing process.
  • Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate rapport building.
  • Explain the synergy of motivational interviewing.
  • Apply rapport building skills to patient cases.
Module 5: Clarifying the Patient’s Issues

At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:

  • Examine barriers to building trust and safety with the patient.
  • Describe skills for clarifying the issue.
  • Compare skills for exploring and reframing the issue.
  • Differentiate when to use skills to explore, clarify, or reframe the issue.
  • Describe barriers to appropriate reflections.
  • Apply skills for addressing the issue and special considerations to case studies.
Module 6: Addressing the Patient’s Issue

At the completion of this module, participants will be able to:

  • Define criteria for effectively addressing the issue.
  • Differentiate between when to use varying skills for addressing the issue.
  • Apply skills for addressing the issue and special considerations to case studies.
  • Describe how to effectively respond to angry patients.
  • Apply skills for managing angry patients.

How to Obtain a Certificate of Completion
  • Successful completion of the self-study component involves passing the self-study assessment with a grade of 70% or higher.
  • Successful completion of the live seminar component involves attending the full live seminar, successfully demonstrating competency in the utilization and/or evaluation of these devices and completing the online assessment and evaluation.
  • Credit must be claimed for each course (self-study, live seminar, and post-live training) in order to obtain credit.
  • Participants will need to have a valid APhA (pharmacist.com) username and password, as well as a CPE Monitor account to claim credit. After credit has been claimed, please visit CPE monitor for your transcript.
  • The Certificate of Completion will be available online upon successful completion of all activities on the participant's My Training page.
  • APhA continuing pharmacy education policy provides you with two opportunities to successfully complete a continuing pharmacy education assessment. Please note that you will not be permitted to submit an assessment a third time. The current policy of the APhA Education Department is not to release the correct answers to any of our CPE tests. This is intended to maintain the integrity of the CPE activity and the assessment.
Accreditation Information

The American Pharmacists Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. The commit: Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training certificate training program is approved for a total of 8.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit (.8 CEUs). The ACPE Universal Activity Numbers (UAN) for this activity are listed below.

Successful completion of the program involves passing the assessment with a grade of 70% or higher and will result in 8 contact hours of CPE credit (.8 CEUs). ACPE UAN: 0202-0000-25-127-H04-P/T

Participants will need to have a valid APhA (pharmacist.com) username and password as well as a CPE Monitor account to claim credit. After credit has been claimed, please visit CPE Monitor for your transcript. The Certificate of Achievement will be available online upon successful completion of the necessary activity requirements on the participant’s My Training page.

  • Release Date: February 28, 2025
  • Expiration Date: February 28, 2028—PLEASE NOTE: NO credit granted after this date
Technology Requirements and Tips

Computer and Internet access is required to complete this activity. Please visit our website to view the Technology System Requirements to have a positive learning experience. If you experience technical difficulties, try a different web browser.

Please be aware that if the system detects no activity for an extended amount of time while the screen is open in the interactive activity, the Next button may freeze, and you will need to Restart that activity again.

The recommendation is that if you cannot complete the activity within one sitting and need to step away, close the activity so that your place is bookmarked.

If you continue to experience difficulties, please reach out to education@aphanet.org with the name of course, detail of your experience, which web browser(s) used and if possible, screenshots.


Faculty

Bruce Berger, PhD, William Villaume, PhD, of Berger Consulting, LLC

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Development

APhA’s ComMIt is an education activity for pharmacists Developed by Bruce Berger, PhD, William Villaume, PhD, of Berger Consulting, LLC, and American Pharmacists Association. © 2025 Berger Consulting, LLC, and American Pharmacists Association.
APhA's Education staff involved in the review of this content declare no conflict of interest or financial interest in any product or service mentioned, including grants, employment, gifts, stock holdings, and honoraria. For a full listing of APhA Staff Disclosures, please see the APhA Disclosure Statement webpage at APhA Staff Disclosures.
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