Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Motivational Interviewing for Tobacco Cessation
Join Pam Pietruszewski in this course and discover how the SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) play a part in strengthening your services and strategies for tobacco cessation with the individuals you serve.
- Strengthening your SBIRT services
- Motivational Interviewing strategies for tobacco
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- Identify and apply the core components of SBIRT and motivational interviewing.
- Understand how SBIRT and motivational interviewing enhance behavior change and treatment outcomes.
- Learn strategies to incorporate SBIRT and motivational interviewing into existing models of care.
Pam Pietruszewski, MA
Senior Advisor, National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Pam Pietruszewski has more than 20 years’ experience designing and implementing programs to integrate behavioral health and primary care services. Her work includes Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention funded by the CDC, and DIAMOND, a depression care management program that received the 2010 Gold Award from the American Psychiatric Association. Pietruszewski is a national Motivational Interviewing trainer and is listed in the National Registry of SBIRT Trainers from the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network established by SAMHSA. She is published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, American Journal of Managed Care, Mental Health Family Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Family Medicine. She holds a master’s degree in counseling and psychological services from St. Mary’s University in Minnesota.
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The module was very informing and gave good examples of situations and how to handle them with specific drills."
