New Webinar Schedule!

This training will be split into two Friday morning sessions. You must participate in both days to receive credit. We look forward to seeing you online.

• Friday, June 12, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Friday, June 19, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Effective and efficient communication skills are more relevant than ever!

This training provides practical skills for engaging people in the process of change and guiding them to find solutions. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based communication style that has been shown to have a dramatic effect on patient outcomes. Dr. Tillman will be using examples relevant to COVID-19, and helping patients prioritize multiple health concerns.

• MI creates a partnership between health professionals and their patients, enabling them to work together as “co-experts” towards shared goals.
• MI helps people identify their own motivation for making lifestyle changes.
• MI is the opposite of telling people what to do and how to do it. MI activates discussion about change and minimizes talk about being stuck in unhealthy habits.
• MI involves specific, measurable skills designed to create effective interactions.

Featured Speaker

Jonnae Tillman, PMHNP, DNP

Dr. Jonnae Tillman is board-certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) and holds a doctoral degree as a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). She has additional training in addiction medicine, with over 25 years of experience working with both adults and adolescents. Dr. Tillman has a broad spectrum of experience working with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. She maintains an avid interest in integrating genetic testing into the selection of evidence-based practice and psychopharmacology.

Jonnae has provided training in Motivational Interviewing for 19 years, including coaching emergency department practitioners at NYU / Bellevue Hospital, Miami’s Jackson Memorial, and Massachusetts General in Boston. She is faculty at Seattle University and designs trainings for Nurse Family Partnership, Washington State Department of Corrections, Migrant Head Start, and domestic violence prevention agencies. For her doctoral research, Jonnae investigated the role of NP’s in medication-assisted-treatment (MAT).

Jonnae regularly presents at national and international conferences, presenting on topics like “e-Health’ Interventions at the ICME Research Conference in Venice, Italy; and “M.I. in Healthcare: Brief Interventions” at the MINT conference in Sheffield, England.

Learn more about course fees, accreditation, and how to register here.