Do you want the evidence based outcomes from Motivational Interviewing?
Welcome to the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA), where we can help YOU become competent or proficient in Motivational Interviewing. Whether you are an individual, an agency or someone who can already code for the MICA, we can support you!
Learn more about why Competency or Proficiency matters
To learn more about the MICA, view the video by pressing the right-arrow “play” button below.
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Individual
If you want to challenge your own skills, grow in your communication methods and create a long lasting professional skill, we highly recommend submitting audio tapes (10-20 minutes long) to be coded on the MICA.
1 tape submission includes
- 1 MICA report
- One 30 minute coaching session
To reach fidelity in Motivational Interviewing, it takes between 3-6 tapes. The cost per audio submitted is $125, please e-mail [email protected] to submit your audio! Competency or Proficiency is reached when 2 back to back audios are rated competent(8 or higher) or proficient(9 or higher). To submit an audio tape, press the blue button below that says “Get Started by Submitting and Audio Tape”.
Alternatively, if you want to reach competency quicker, you might find our online membership helpful.
Included in our membership
- MICA audio: You can listen to competent and proficient audios
- Behind the scenes MICA coding: Watch and listen to John Gilbert as he codes, and provides lots of coaching in these in depth videos
Use the “Join Membership” button below to create a membership account.
Agency
Have you trained with the IFIOC team and are looking for long term sustainability? The MICA is a great option as it will help your teams increase their skill set in Motivational Interviewing after training. Start by submitting an audio tape(10-20 minutes long), and we will take it from there!
1 tape submission includes
- 1 MICA report
- One 30 minute coaching session
To reach fidelity in Motivational Interviewing, it takes between 3-6 tapes. The cost per audio submitted is $125, please e-mail [email protected] to submit your audio! Competency or Proficiency is reached when 2 back to back audios are rated competent(8 or higher) or proficient(9 or higher). To submit an audio tape, press the blue button below that says “Get Started by Submitting and Audio Tape”.
Coder
Have you already taken the MICA course and you want to code audio tapes for your own agency or business? Using our MICA website, you can code, manage and share the reports you’ve coded with your team or others.
The Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment was created specifically to clarify whether a practitioner’s method of communication is representative of Motivational Interviewing. The process is easy and allows for greater fidelity to Motivational Interviewing methodology.
- Create a company account for your team.
- Codings and reports are stored safely in once place.
- Save time! Mica only requires 10 minutes.
- Learn the Mica Coding process with an online course.
The Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) will give professionals easily digestible, structured, and specific feedback regarding their efforts to use Motivational Interviewing (MI) with their clients. The MICA was developed by members of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) who each has years of training and coding MI. The MICA draws upon a variety of evidence-informed and evidence-based tools, theories, and practices. This coding tool is primarily focused on providing practical feedback/coaching to professionals in any service field on how to build their MI skill-set. To submit an audio tape, press the blue button below that says “Get Started by Submitting and Audio Tape”.
Select the “Take me to the MICA” button below to go to our external MICA coding tool. Note that you will be leaving ifioc.org.
View coding report example below
Competency or Proficiency is reached when 2 back to back audios are rated competent(8 or higher) or proficient(9 or higher).
Curious to learn about how to code Motivational Interviewing?
Click the blue button below that says “View Upcoming MICA Coding Classes to learn more about our MICA trainings.