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Applying Motivational Interviewing Strategies in Substance Use Prevention Practices, Programs, and Services
November 5 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Enhancing Prevention Efforts:
Prevention Application Community of Practice
Overview:
Prevention Application Community of Practice spaces support the continuing education of prevention professionals in a manner that is engaging, focused on skill building, dynamic, and in line with statewide goals. Together we “unpack” what has been learned in professional competency training events, thus supporting the application of skills and development of sector partnerships and networking. Prevention Application spaces are intended to be a collective learning space with reflection opportunities for participants.
November Topic
Motivational Interviewing (MI) isn’t just for intervention or treatment; it’s a powerful tool for prevention professionals, too. In this interactive session, we’ll explore how MI strategies can support prevention efforts through effective engagement, early identification, and appropriate referral practices. Aligned with CSAP’s Problem Identification and Referral strategy, participants will learn how to use MI-informed techniques to support youth and families in recognizing risk, building readiness for change, and strengthening protective factors. Through practice-based learning, we’ll explore how MI principles such as, empathy, collaboration, and evoking change talk can enhance conversations in schools, coalitions, and community settings. Whether you’re new to MI or brushing up, this session will help you integrate MI into your prevention toolbox with confidence and cultural responsiveness.
About the Presenter
Kristin Dempsey (she/her), EdD, LMFT, LPCC is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and professional clinical counselor (LPCC). She has provided psychotherapy in the Bay Area for almost 25 years in public non-profits and county mental health settings, schools, and medical clinics. Her current psychotherapy practice is located in San Francisco and Burlingame. Dr. Dempsey’s areas of clinical interest include treatments for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, complex trauma in childhood and adolescence, eating disorders, panic/ anxiety, and many behavioral challenges such as anger management and impulse control disorders. She has worked with adults, senior adults, transitional age youth, adolescents, and children in individual, family, and group modalities. In addition to clinical work, Dr. Dempsey trains providers in a number of evidence-based and promising practices. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and has experience teaching and training cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis (CBTp), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). She is a master trainer for Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST) and has been trained in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) to assess trauma impacts in youth and adults. Dr. Dempsey also provides additional programmatic consultation regarding behavioral health system redesign and implementation of evidence-based practices. Dr. Dempsey is engaged in behavioral health workforce development research and organizational change projects. She is especially interested in investigating and promoting best practices to recruit and retain underrepresented clinicians in the mental health and substance abuse treatment fields.
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