Motivational interviewing

COUNSELING MODALITIES PRACTICE AND REFLECTION #1 Motivational Interviewing - Interview of Roxanne Motivational interviewing is a counseling approach developed by William R. Miller, and Professor Stephen Rollnick in the early 1980s. The clinical and applicable aspects of Motivational Interviewing (MI) have received increased attention in recent years, and MI has been shown effective as a relatively brief intervention (Levensky, Kersch, Cavasos, & Brooks, 2008). According to Miller and Roderick,…

117). In the following essay, in addition to further discussing the characteristics of successful probation supervision, I will discuss motivational interviewing (MI) as an evidence-based approach to supervision, and its effectiveness. By implementing motivational interviewing into their practices of supervision, probation officers enable themselves to build interpersonal connections between themselves and probationers, and properly consider the specific…

Motivational Interviewing Motivational interviewing or MI is a collective, person-centered arrangement of guiding to provoke and reinforce incentive and assurance for modification (Hettema, Steele, & Miller, 2005). It is a treatment method which recognizes that many individuals undergo uncertainty when determining to make a change (Miller & Rollnick, 2002). Ambivalence is a usual state of doubt that each person experiences during the course of most change processes (Miller, 2006). Uncertainty…

important part of the Motivational Interviewing process. In my first reflection I talked about how great I thought I was at listening to my client talk about his or her goals. The first couple of sessions with my client, I thought it was a complete success. The first day we talked about how the professionals needed to allow the patient to do the majority of the talking with very little interruptions, I was astonished. I thought I was already a pro with Motivational Interviewing, but in…

Motivational interviewing (MI) involves attention to natural language about change, with implications for how to have more effective conversations about it, particularly in contexts where one person is acting as a helping professional for another. MI is designed to find a constructive way through the challenges that often arise when a helper ventures into someone else’s motivation for change. MI is about arranging conversations so that people talk themselves into change, based on their own…

Techniques: Motivational Interviewing M.K. Place follows the five general principles for Motivational Interviewing: 1. Express empathy through reflective listening. 2. Develop discrepancy between clients’ goals or values and their current behaviors. 3. Avoid argument and direct confrontation. 4. Adjust to client resistance rather than opposing it directly. 5. Support self-efficacy and optimism. Groups: Early Recovery/Drug Education, Relapse Prevention, Seeking Safety, DBT (Dialectical…

Motivational Interviewing (MI) in my own words is simply using skills and techniques to encourage a changed behavior with a client. As a therapist you are the supporter and facilitator as the client maneuvers through their thought process. After observing MI in the videos, I have concluded by observation, that as a therapist you are having a conversation with a client in hopes they are going to process a changed behavior. There are two ideas of change that derive from MI : Importance- why is…

Motivational Interviewing: Annotated Bibliography Barnett, E., Sussman, S., Smith, C., Rohrbach, L. A., & Spruijt-Metz, D. (2012). Motivational Interviewing for adolescent substance use: a review of the literature. Addictive behaviors, 37(12), 1325-1334. Retrieved November 19, 2016, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496394/ Summary of the article The author has used Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a research support to address on substance abuse among the adolescents. The key…

Some of the major concepts in found motivational interviewing are: • Motivation to change is elicited from the client, and is not imposed from outside forces • It is the client’s task, not the counselor’s, to articulate and resolve his or her ambivalence • Direct persuasion is not an effective method for resolving ambivalence • The counseling style is generally quiet and elicits information from the client • The counselor is directive, in that they help the client to examine and resolve…

comes to the management of unhealthy behaviors, motivation level has always been integral in defining the success of outcomes. I believe that the article “Encouraging Patients to Change Unhealthy Behaviors with Motivational Interviewing” has done well to support the use of motivational interviewing in managing unhealthy behaviors as opposed to the use of direct confrontation. The strategy has been presented as a client-centered method used in enhancing intrinsic motivation to change. There are…