BAP-MI: Advanced Stepped-Care Skills

Online & Self-Directed
Learn the Skills of BAP-MI at your own pace!

Developed for the American Psychiatric Association Learning Center, this advanced course is revised and updated in collaboration with the MI Center for Change and Jope Consulting Services.

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BAP-MI: Advanced Stepped-Care Skills

This course teaches participants how to integrate Brief Action Planning (BAP) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) in clinical practice. BAP-MI facilitates flexible and pragmatic action planning across the full spectrum of readiness: from those ready/nearly ready for change, to those with deep-seated ambivalence about changing persistent unhealthy behaviors. The course includes focused lectures, video demonstrations, interactive (and “kinesthetic” ) exercises with commentaries, self-assessment quizzes and a final exam with feedback for incorrect answers.

BAP MI
$100.00

BAP-MI: Advanced Stepped-Care Skills (CE)

This online, self-directed course in BAP-MI offers participants 8 hours of CE.

The course teaches participants how to integrate Brief Action Planning (BAP) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) in clinical practice. BAP-MI facilitates flexible and pragmatic action planning across the full spectrum of readiness: from those ready/nearly ready for change, to those with deep-seated ambivalence about changing persistent unhealthy behaviors. The course includes focused lectures, video demonstrations, interactive (and “kinesthetic” ) exercises with commentaries, self-assessment quizzes and a final exam with feedback for incorrect answers.

MI Center for Change is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists and maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  Allied health professionals (e.g. nurses, OT, PT, addiction counselors) will receive certificates of completion, often accepted by professional boards for licensure requirements.

BAP-MI (CE)
$200.00

Now Offering This Course with Live Zoom Practicums!

January/February 2027
14 hours of CE

Includes six 60-minute live Zoom practicums

BAP-MI: Advanced Stepped-Care Skills (CME)

This online, self-directed course in BAP-MI offers participants 8 hours of CME.

The course teaches participants how to integrate Brief Action Planning (BAP) and Motivational Interviewing (MI) in clinical practice. BAP-MI facilitates flexible and pragmatic action planning across the full spectrum of readiness: from those ready/nearly ready for change, to those with deep-seated ambivalence about changing persistent unhealthy behaviors. The course includes focused lectures, video demonstrations, interactive (and “kinesthetic” ) exercises with commentaries, self-assessment quizzes and a final exam with feedback for incorrect answers.

The Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education to physicians and nurse practitioners. The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Learners should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

BAP-MI (CME)
$200.00

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. use Brief Action Planning (BAP) in routine clinical practice;
  2. describe the Spirit of MI and each of its four elements;
  3. explain the importance of each of the four elements of the Spirit of MI for BAP and BAP-MI;
  4. name the four skills of OARS and explain how they are used in BAP-MI;
  5. discuss “Change and Sustain Talk” and their importance in BAP-MI;
  6. describe the two MITI “relational” scales of “Partnership” and “Empathy” and how they are used;
  7. describe the two MITI “technical” scales of “Softening Sustain Talk” and “Cultivating Change Talk “and how they are used; and
  8. use the BAP-MI stepped-care approach to self-management support and health behavior change in routine clinical practice.