What You'll Gain from This Event
Understanding AI You’ll be able to define generative AI, describe how it works, and explain how AI is being used to teach, learn, and support MI.
Engaging with AI Tools You’ll interact with AI as a virtual “standardized client,” MI coach, and teaching assistant and use your first-hand experience to assess AI’s strengths and limitations when it comes to MI.
Ethical and Cultural Considerations You’ll evaluate how AI does or doesn’t fit within your cultural context and consider contrasting perspectives on deploying AI in the helping professions.
Action Planning You’ll have the opportunity to formulate your own next steps in exploring, designing, implementing, or evaluating AI for MI.
Meet Your Speaker(s)
Dr. Reuben Hendler, MD
Co-Facilitator & member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, Inc.
Reuben A. Hendler, MD is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He works as a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital outside Boston, Massachusetts, caring for people with addiction and other mental health concerns in inpatient and residential settings and providing consultation on substance use disorder treatment. Dr. Hendler teaches motivational interviewing to psychiatry residents at McLean and co-directs there the Clinician Educator Program, which trains residents to teach as they practice psychiatry. Dr. Hendler facilitates an AI / MI Learning Group in the MINT and has presented nationally and internationally on the use of AI for education.
Jon Kratz, MSW, LCSW
Co-Facilitator & member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, Inc.
Jonathan Kratz, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He has an extensive background in forensic social work, clinical mental health, and school based services with children and families. He teaches across the direct practice curriculum at OU including courses in mental health, group work, advanced clinical social work theories of practice, populations at risk, and the integrative seminar. He is a primary investigator for the Suicide Prevention Research Center and his work at OU focuses on clinical pedagogy related to Motivational Interviewing, Suicide Risk Assessment, and Clinical Skill Development using standardized clients and artificial intelligence.
Empowering Change, One Conversation at a Time.
Our goal is to build community and create connections all over the world by providing various virtual workshops with topics linked to Motivational Interviewing.