BACH 6322 Motivational Interviewing in Public Health Settings

3 SCH. This course provides an overview of Motivational Interviewing (MI), an evidence-based counseling strategy for promoting behavior change. The course focuses on using Ml conversations to target behaviors such as smoking, alcohol and other drug use, physical activity, obesity, risky sexual behavior, and injury and violence. The course also presents ways that Ml techniques have been integrated into Internet, mobile and phone-based interventions for a variety of health behaviors. MPH students will be eligible to take this course with the prior permission of the instructor.