a boat on a lake at the sunsetAdditional resources

The following resources are found in the file Additional Resources:

  • Working with involuntary and mandated clients.
  • Spirit of motivational interviewing.
  • a keyThomas Gordon’s 12 Roadblocks to Listening.
  • Strategies for handling resistance.

Civil Commitment Training and Resource Booklet

This following link will take you to a PowerPoint presentation of Civil Commitment Process training done by Roger Schwab of the Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disability. 

An additional resource to learn about the civil commitment process is the NAMI Minnesota booklet: Understanding the Minnesota Civil Commitment Process