Motivational Interviewing (MI)Candidate FlashCard:Key Figures:William Miller and Stephen Rollnick.
Premise:Therapeutic style addresses client's motivation for change by the client articulating the costs and benefits of change. Basic approach:Client-centered and directive enhances basic motivation. Explores and resolves ambivalence Confrontational style is avoided Elicits client's perceptions, goals and values Collaborative Goals:Create motivational discrepancies Resolve ambivalence Elicit self-motivational statements Two Phases: Increasing motivation for change:Build rapport, recognize problems, explore various aspects of ambivalence; useful in the precontemplation stage. Strengthen commitment to the decision for change:Goal setting, making behavioral plans, avoiding roadblocks to successful change attempts; useful in the contemplative stage of change. Four Principles: Empathy Pointing out discrepancies between values/beliefs and behaviors Accepting reluctance to change as natural (not resistance as pathology) Encouraging self-efficacy |