Motivational interviewing

approach that enhances the aspect of caring, curing, and healing which emphasises the complexity of assessment towards recovery goals. This paper will critically discuss the clinical approach of motivational interviewing used to build…

A. Four Guiding Principles of MI The four guiding principles of Motivational Interviewing guide the clinician in a technique designed to create greater behavior change with clients. Successfully empowering individuals to create lasting healthy behavioral changes means establishing a trusting rapport and empathetically listening to their needs while maintaining a clear agenda that sets the stage for progressive “change speech” (Matulich, 2013). According to Matulich (2013), when a client…

The critical elements of Motivational Interviewing (MI) can be remembered using the acronym OARS, which stands for: open ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summarizing (HeartFoundationAust, 2012). With the first element, opened ended questions, they help the client disclose more about themselves and helps the therapist gauge the client’s willingness to change. For example the therapist might ask “What would you like to change about your life style? (HeartFoundationAust, 2012)” The…

Motivational interviewing is an interaction that induces motivation for change. The patient often has doubt about change and that doubt affects how a patient is motivated and their readiness to change a behavior. The acronym RULE is used for the four guiding principles of motivational interviewing. The first letter R is resist the righting reflex which means setting aside the nurses desire to direct or correct the patient’s course. The nurse must allow the patient to voice the need for change.…

Role Play Reflection The goal of this role play was to practice completing an assessment on a family, while using motivational interviewing. Since my group only had two people, our role play consisted of a social worker and a student, who was exhibiting behavioral problems in school. By using the motivational interviewing technique, our goal as a social worker is to get the client to say things and to help them come to the decision of change. With the use of open-ended questions and not being…

Motivational Interviewing is an appropriate model for working with Nancy’s case. One of the reasons is that exploring and resolving ambivalence is the emphasis of the MI approach. It is clear that Nancy’s ambivalence affecting her to living a healthy and fulfilling life. Obviously, the obstacles that are blocking the development of her spiritual life tie to her sexual abuse, her history of multiple addictions, her failed relationships, and her career problems as she mentioned in the first…

School counselors utilize motivational interviewing as a main assessment strategy. Individual counseling can be aided by this approach, small groups can be formed, and referrals can be made for outside resources. Again, it’s important to remember that grief is a very individualized process. Students will react in their own way to the news depending upon several factors, including their age and developmental level, their relationship, if any, with the deceased, their previous experience with…

to use multiple techniques during a consumer’s treatment to limit or cease the use of substances altogether (Jones, Barrowclough, Allott, Day, Earnshaw, & Wilson, 2011). This literature review will compare Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, and determine which technique is best used in daily practice while treating a consumer with SUD and dual diagnoses. MI & CBT Davis, Kaiser,…

intern at Preferred Family Healthcare has afforded me the opportunity to experience many things. The one that has struck me the most recently is the fact that I went into this knowing that I would be working with 6 people on the RCF using Motivational Interviewing. In the beginning I chose the six people with the assistance of staff and was very excited to begin working with them. The part that I didn't realize was the fact that I didn't take into account if they were as excited to work with…

1. A) A specific lesson from the book that supports theory X & Y is the one-minute manager stating that managers must be both result-oriented (theory x) and people-oriented (theory y). He states that people and results go hand in hand in order to make the organization successful. B) An example of this would be when the one-minute manager points out the restaurant that provides service (quantity) gets more customers than the other one because it also provides quality products and services. He…