Motivational Interviewing Strategies and Techniques
Join JFCS and the Philadelphia Hoarding Task Force for a one-day virtual seminar with Michael A. Tompkins, PhD, ABPP, to help professionals build the skills they need to successfully support individuals who hoard.
Attendees will learn:
- The role of low insight in harm potential for people who hoard
- The stages of change model applied to people who hoard
- Strategies to build motivation to accept help for people who hoard
- Strategies to maintain the motivation of people who hoard through the helping process
Credits:
- 5.5 CEUs
- 6.0 CE credit hours for Psychologists. BHTEN is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. BHTEN maintains responsibility for this program & its content.
- 0.6 CEUs (0.6 CEUs=6 TRAINING HOURS). BHTEN is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is authorized to issue the IACET CEU. As an IACET Accredited Provider, BHTEN offers CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standard. BHTEN is authorized by IACET to offer 0.6 CEUs for this program
- 6.0 SW credit hours. This program is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. As a CSWE
the accredited program, the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College is an approved provider of continuing education for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists in Pennsylvania and many other states.
Michael A. Tompkins (PSY13822), PhD, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist and board-certified in Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology.
He is the co-director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Diplomat and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, and a trainer and consultant for the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior.
He received the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in innovation, treatment, and research in the field of hoarding and cluttering by the Mental Health Association of San Francisco.

