Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Online MI and MITI coding trainings

Hello all:
Thanks to those of you who have responded and accepted my blogs invites!  I cannot believe it took me so long to figure those out.

Above is our website and we have 2 trainings coming up beginning next week, 2/13/12.  We may push back the start dates as I was soooo late getting the info out.

Online Intro to MI
2/13/12 until 3/25/12
$300.00

Online MITI 3.1 Coding Training
2/13/12 until 3/25/12
$300.00

If you know of anyone interested please pass the info along.  Mucho appreciated!

Jacque

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Back on the radar screen

Greetings to everyone:

Though I have had this blog up a long while, I could not figure out why people didn't post back.  No wonder!  I neglected to send out into to folks that might want to respond.  I had to play around with this in order to figure it so please feel free to not respond or delete the invitation if you would like.  I have decline invitations as times myself.

I am teaching full time in the Psychology Department of Dominican University in River Forest, IL on for this Spring 2012 semester.  I will be done by mid-May 2012 and am allowing myself to enjoy the luxury of full time salary, benefits and the fantastic students and my faculty colleagues.  MI is not known within my department (perhaps a wee bit) and the department has fantastic research rooms, technology and every student takes 2 research courses for the undergraduate major.  There are computers everywhere with SPSS on them, and they all have to do some sort of research project during both courses.

I have around 500 cases of raw secondary data from all the coding and training I have done, with Baselines and end of training/course sessions as well that I finally will be able to load in. There are 4 Research Assistants there (and this is undergraduate!) with lots of free time.  I am blessed!

Had my left hip replacement on 12/13/12 and am moving around like a champ, though I am still on my cane.  Although I had planned to get lots of prep work done for my 4 courses I am teaching, I am exactly one day ahead of them.  I have taught 2 of them before (Intro and Abnormal) yet the other 2 courses (Child and Adolescent Psychology) are new ones. 

I am still doing a great deal of coding and online courses in MI and MITI Coding, yet the face to face training has dried up.  Everyone's has so that is no big surprise.
Regards to all!  Jacque












Motivational Interviewing Resources

FREE INTERVENTIONS FOR FAMILIES WHOSE LOVED ONES ARE STRUGGLING WITH A SUBSTANCE

I WILL DO FREE INTERVENTIONS FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE LOVED ONES WHO ARE AT THE LAST STOP. Formal Interventions used to be free in Illinois. Does anyone remember that? I do. I am a Licensed Couple/Family therapist and in order to stop interventionists who are charging any money, let alone ridiculous amounts of money for ripping you off, I will do this at no cost. Yes, I have experience. I have done them, and they are difficult for you, the family. Not me. Yet I care about people living instead of dying, and I am angry with counselors and therapist who are preying on misery of families, and taking what is supposed to be a Step of Alcoholics Anonymous and Charging for it. That is against the Traditions of AA. And they know it.
Now, I cannot afford transportation or anything as I am not employed right now at all yet I will do my best to assist you.
These interventions should be saved for the person who you believe you may never see again because they may die from their substance misuse. Other counseling interventions work better than Formal Intervention (which can often tear families apart rather than keeping them together) yet talking about it and getting the details will help determine that.
Don't pay a penny for an intervention. Please.