IN-PERSON-Using Motivational Interviewing with Teens: I Don’t Wanna and You Can’t Make Me!


IN-PERSON-Friday, May 16, 2025, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM-$219 including CEUs
Using Motivational Interviewing with Teens: I Don’t Wanna and You Can’t Make Me!
Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I

This training will focus on engaging reluctant adolescents in talking about change using Motivational Interviewing Strategies. Adolescence has a reputation for being a turbulent time, when teens are working to figure out who they are independent of their families and adults in their life. This can lead to challenges when teens are engaging in behaviors with a negative impact on their health, safety, or development… and they definitely don’t want to hear about it! This training will help practitioners tailor  Motivational Interviewing strategies to this particular age, and find ways to have conversations that have the potential to lead to behavior change, and increasing practitioners sense of effectiveness and connection with their teen clients.

Following this training the participants will understand:

  • MI skills to promote engagement and ownership
  • Ways to adapt MI strategies for the adolescent population
  • The importance of self-care and expectation management for practitioners


 

Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I, Director of Training and Professional Development at Open Sky Community Services, is committed to making the best evidence-based tools and supports available to both Open Sky employees and the broader provider community through the Bridge Training Institute. Ms. Langevin has presented regionally and nationally on implementing evidence-based treatment modalities, including the Stephanie Moulton Symposium, NAADAC National Webinar Series, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Rehabilitation Collaborative Annual Conference. She has extensive training and fidelity coding experience in Motivational Interviewing and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

She had provided training and consultation in a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities to mental health providers, school systems, community groups and state agencies, where feedback has included, “Suzy is very knowledgeable and provides practical insight on how to apply the skill learned in real life situations. Her training approach is upbeat, engaging, and informative.”

In her more than decade long tenure at Open Sky, she served as Director of Dual Diagnosis Services, where she developed a model for services for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders within the agency’s community mental health programming. She also previously worked to implement and supervise the provision of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) services across adult and adolescent treatment settings and the development and opening of The Bridge Counseling Center, Open Sky’s outpatient division. In 2014, Ms. Langevin was awarded the ABH Excellence in Outcomes Award as a member of the CR for PTSD group. She was selected to the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Worcester Class of 2021.

In addition to her work at Open Sky, Ms. Langevin has experience in a diverse range of settings, including emergency mental health, juvenile justice, residential treatment, and hospital inpatient care.

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