MI Community Connections: Supervision and Coaching Clinical Skillfulness

Why are some therapists so much more (or less) effective than others? Beyond whatever specific treatments are provided, client outcomes are substantially influenced by learnable relational skills such as accurate empathy, positive regard, and genuineness. How can clinical supervisors, teachers, and coaches help counselors to strengthen these important “nonspecific” skills? This workshop focuses on how to observe, measure, and teach these vital skills that are often overlooked or assumed in practice.

Psychology professors Miller and Moyers (University of New Mexico) are the authors of Effective Psychotherapists: Clinical Skills that Improve Client Outcomes. They bring career-long experience in clinical training, motivational interviewing, and treatment process and outcome research.