Motivational Interviewing: Eliciting Client’s Own Arguments for Change
Categories: Professional Development / TrainingAudiences: Treatment Professionals, Health Care Providers
Date: March 11, 2010 7:45 AM
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Motivational Interviewing provides a structure that gives responsibility back to
the client for change, relieving practitioners of that assumed “burden.” Once
clients have made a commitment for change, practitioners can more successfully
provide support and strategies to assist clients in achieving their goals (Fields,
2004).
Motivational Interviewing was developed by William R. Miller, Ph.D. and
Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D. in the 1980s. Motivational Interviewing is an
evidence-based treatment proven effective across practice venues (i.e. addictions,
compulsive behaviors, managing mental and physical health concerns and
criminal behavior) with ethnically and culturally diverse populations across three
continents.
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Eight approaches to motivation.
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Six stages of change with effective interventions and strategies for each.
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Six key elements of effective feedback enhancing client motivation.
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Evidence-based strategies to elicit change talk releasing client potential and increasing practitioner effectiveness.