Online Courses in Advanced Skills

BAP-MI: A Stepped-Care Approach to Self-Management Support and Health Behavior Change

BAP:MI  advanced course in BAP-MI will teach participants how to integrate skills flexibly and efficiently from both BAP and MI to facilitate action planning across the full spectrum of readiness to change: from those ready/nearly ready for change, to those with considerable ambivalence about changing persistent unhealthy behaviors.

Course Learning 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.

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BAP-MI:

A Stepped-Care Approach to Self-Management Support and Health Behavior Change

BAP: MI (CE Version)

Continuing Education Credits
MI Center for Change is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The MI Center for Change can issue certificates of completion for mental health counselors, social workers, allied health professionals (e.g.  nurses, OT, PT), and addiction counselors, which many professional boards will accept for CE.

BAP: MI (CME Version)

Continuing Medical Education Credits

The School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education to physicians. 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) ™. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.