Hello world. Just trying to catch up after a medical problem that put me in the hospital for over a week. I am grateful to be alive and healthy.
I have been doing a great deal of coding for several research projects, as well as feedback/coaching for practitioners in healthcare, probation and mental health. I begin teaching in the Marriage/Family Therapy program at Northwestern University, and the Family Institute has been so gracious to me. Many thanks to Doug Breunlin and Bill Russell for continuing to be my cheerleaders. I also begin teaching a similar course in the Community Counseling masters program at Argosy University in Schaumburg, IL and a big shout out to Dale S., my chairperson there. And Dan Beach, Chair of the Psychology Department at Dominican University, you are the bomb, dude. I truly am grateful for all of your support during this very trying last 18 months of my life. I know that I am not only in writing (typing) that you all have continued to see something in me that has provided the optimism much needed, as well as the part time work.
Teaching these courses allows me to continue my own research in teaching Motivational Interviewing, as every student provides a baseline session of MI, receives feedback/coaching and then provides another session at the end of the course. This has allowed me to see what differences, if any, we can see with or without Feedback/Coaching vs. just numeric feedback. It is a tremendous amount of work on the part of the students, and I know what courage it takes to let someone hear and code one's own clinical work. Bravery of this type is in short supply among practitioners and they are to be commended.
I love my students.
Jacque
I have been doing a great deal of coding for several research projects, as well as feedback/coaching for practitioners in healthcare, probation and mental health. I begin teaching in the Marriage/Family Therapy program at Northwestern University, and the Family Institute has been so gracious to me. Many thanks to Doug Breunlin and Bill Russell for continuing to be my cheerleaders. I also begin teaching a similar course in the Community Counseling masters program at Argosy University in Schaumburg, IL and a big shout out to Dale S., my chairperson there. And Dan Beach, Chair of the Psychology Department at Dominican University, you are the bomb, dude. I truly am grateful for all of your support during this very trying last 18 months of my life. I know that I am not only in writing (typing) that you all have continued to see something in me that has provided the optimism much needed, as well as the part time work.
Teaching these courses allows me to continue my own research in teaching Motivational Interviewing, as every student provides a baseline session of MI, receives feedback/coaching and then provides another session at the end of the course. This has allowed me to see what differences, if any, we can see with or without Feedback/Coaching vs. just numeric feedback. It is a tremendous amount of work on the part of the students, and I know what courage it takes to let someone hear and code one's own clinical work. Bravery of this type is in short supply among practitioners and they are to be commended.
I love my students.
Jacque
