Brief Therapies: Motivational Interviewing

Question 1

MI: Overview

Answer 1

• Miller and Rollnick
• Originally developed for ppl who are ambivalent about making change.
• Based on principles of Roger’s client-centered therapy and Bandura’s notion of self-efficacy and transtheoretical model

Question 2

MI: maladaptive behavior

Answer 2

focuses on factors that impede change.

Question 3

MI: Therapy goals and techniques

Answer 3

Primary goal - nhance intrinsic motivation to alter behav by helping examine and resolve ambivalence.

General Principles

1. Express empathy
2. Develop discrepancies btwn current behav and personal goals and values
3. Roll resistance
4. Express empathy

Microskills

1. open ended questions
2. Affirmations
3. Reflections
4. Summaries