Motivational Interviewing for SUD Counseling
Practical skills for engaging ambivalence, strengthening change talk, and supporting client-owned change within SUD counseling.
Course Code: AODCEU-MI-001 • Self-Paced Online / Home Study
COURSE OVERVIEW
Motivational Interviewing for SUD Counseling
This skills-focused course introduces current Motivational Interviewing practice for substance use disorder counseling. It emphasizes collaboration, autonomy support, reflective listening, change talk, sustain talk, and movement toward client-owned plans without relying on confrontation, persuasion, or the fixing reflex.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Learning objectives
- Describe the purpose of Motivational Interviewing and distinguish MI from persuasion, confrontation, advice-giving, and passive listening.
- Apply the current MI spirit of partnership, acceptance, compassion, and empowerment in SUD counseling interactions.
- Use the four MI tasks—engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning—to organize a change conversation.
- Use OARS skills—open questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries—with greater intentionality.
- Recognize preparatory and mobilizing change talk and respond in ways that strengthen client language for change.
- Respond to sustain talk and discord without arguing, labeling, shaming, or triggering the fixing reflex.
- Use Ask-Offer-Ask, importance and confidence questions, and planning strategies while protecting client autonomy.
COURSE STRUCTURE
2 focused learning modules
The locked course architecture provides 120 designed instructional minutes and 12 required formative application checks plus a 15-question cumulative final. Course-specific module content is preserved in the controlling master and is not altered by this public page.
COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS
What is required to complete the course
Progress through the full 120-minute course structure and required learning activities.
The course includes 12 required application checks. They are formative and do not determine the final course grade.
A minimum score of 80%—12 of 15 correct—is required.
Learner feedback is required before the completion workflow can advance.
The learner must electronically attest that they personally completed the required course activities and assessments.
ASSESSMENT
Application checks and final exam
Application checks
The course includes 12 required application checks. They are formative and do not determine the final course grade.
Final exam
The cumulative final contains 15 scored questions. The passing standard is 80% (12/15).
Answer keys and grading logic are administrative controls and are not exposed on the public course page.
CERTIFICATE & PROVIDER STATUS
Certificate available after successful completion
Certificate eligibility requires completion of all modules, all required application checks, a passing final-exam score, the course evaluation, and the learner attestation.
AOD CEU Workshop is CADTP Approved CE Provider #309. CEUs are currently offered for CADTP; CCAPP and CAADE approval is planned for the future. Certificates are issued after all course-completion requirements are met.
LEARNER ACCESS
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The course player tracks required lessons, application checks, the final exam, evaluation, attestation, and certificate eligibility.
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ENROLLMENT STATUS
Open for enrollment
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