Motivational interviewing in practice

Lydia Guthrie BA (Oxon), MSc, Dip SW, Systemic Practitioner, is Co-Director of Change Point Ltd, and works as a trainer and supervisor across social work, criminal justice, mental health, secure forensic and voluntary sector settings. She qualified as a social worker in 1998, and spent ten years working for the Probation Service in practitioner and management roles. She completed an MSc in Attachment Theory in 2014, and is trained in the Strange Situation Procedure and the Adult Attachment Interview. She is the co-author (with Clark Baim) of ‘Changing Offending Behaviour’ (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014) and (with Imogen Blood) of ‘Supporting Older People using Attachment-Informed and Strengths-Based Approaches’ (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018). She is in her final year of training as a systemic psychotherapist/family therapist at the Institute of Family Therapy.

Dr David Wilkins is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Cardiff University and Assistant Director of the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)). David has previously worked on several research projects exploring the use of motivational interviewing in child and family social work and is currently co-authoring a book on the subject, to be published in 2021. Prior to joining Cardiff University, David worked as a senior research fellow at the Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care, an Academic Tutor for the Frontline Programme and a Senior Lecturer in Social Work for Anglia Ruskin University. In his spare time, David tries to play tennis and the piano.