CONFERENCE INFORMATION


Planning Committee

Professor Jean-Bernard Daeppen
Alcohol Treatment Center, Department of Community Medicine and Health
Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

Cristiana Fortini
Alcohol Treatment Center, Department of Community Medicine and Health
Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

Professor William R. Miller
Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA)
University of New Mexico, USA

Professor Stephen Rollnick
Department of General Practice
Cardiff University, UK

Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)

Center for Motivation and Change (CMC)

The Conference     

The First International Conference on Motivational Interviewing (ICMI) will be held at the Casino Kursaal Conference Center in Interlaken, Switzerland, on  9 - 11 June 2008. The main goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers, experts and professionals who use motivational interviewing (MI) in various settings and disciplines. ICMI will be held every two years, in different countries around the world.

Originally developed within the addictions field, MI has been largely diffused to many other health-related fields, and is now widespread among professionals who deal with health change issues such as drinking, smoking, eating disorders, obesity, chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension…), at-risk behaviors, physical activity, etc.

Whether we are general practitioners, internists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, counselors, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, or from many other disciplines, Motivational Interviewing has helped us to help our patients deal with and change health-related behaviors.

What work is being carried out in these various fields?  ICMI will focus on various aspects of MI. It will address questions such as: how has MI evolved? How does it work? How is it diffused and integrated into different settings? How is it taught and learned?

The Program     

The program will feature:

Plenary conferences given by invited speakers in the mornings.

Contributed presentations in the afternoons. They will include selected symposia and workshops, as well as poster presentations.

Pre-conference workshops: two pre-conference workshops are featured on Sunday, 8 June 2008: a one-day multilingual advanced practitioner MI workshop, and a one-day MITI coding introductory workshop (see below for details).

Pre-conference workshops     

Introduction to the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Code (MITI)

Trainer: Dr Theresa Moyers

This workshop will present an overview of the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity coding system (MITI). Participants will also be introduced to other available systems for monitoring the fidelity of motivational interviewing. The workshop will consist of didactic lecture and review of samples of MI.

MI practitioner workshop

Optimising Helpfulness: Advancing Practitioner Competence in MI
Trainers: Jeff Allison (United Kingdom), and others.

This multi-disciplinary workshop is designed as an opportunity for practitioners who have undergone previous MI training, and have practice experience, to further develop their competence in MI. The workshop will explore the application of MI to the common daily challenges faced by the participants.

• Plenary session (in English): On the nature and effect of "direction".
• A demonstration (in English): "The Edinburgh Interview" deconstructed.
• Simulation exercises, small groups (in a range of languages): using case materials provided by the participants.