Ch 16: Motivational Interviewing Flashcards
A client-centered coaching style that helps clients resolve ambivalence and elicit behavior change.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
The state of having mixed feelings about change
Ambivalence
- A client with ambivalence wants to change and at the same time does not want to change.
Motivational interviewing helps:
Helps clients define their current and ideal selves and form a plan that moves the current self toward an ideal self. When an individual wants to change dietary behaviors to improve body composition, overall health, or athletic performance, motivational interviewing is a coaching approach that can be used to help clients change specific health behaviors
At its core, Motivational interviewing is:
Non-confrontational, collaborative, empathetic, and goal-oriented style of communication
In US, Percentage of Obese or Overweight Americans
70%
Rewards that are immediate – for example, the pleasure of eating high-sugar, high-fat foods.
Proximal Rewards
Rewards that are far away, such as a loss of 30 pounds.
Distal Rewards
The build-up of mental energy that drives the desire to behave in certain ways – behavior often needs plans.
Motivational Phase
Point where individuals decide how they will turn their motivation into behavior.
Planning Phase
Initial deliberative stages
Clients create a motivational foundation for implementing change
Implemental Stage
Clients plan when, where, and how to act. Plans will fail to drive action if a person questions the desirability or feasibility of the chosen goal
The collective reasons that drive a person to take action.
Motivation
- Brain processes that energize and direct behavior
- Motivation, as energy, is subject to change
- Has a direct relationship with planning as well as the execution of plans
if a client can strongly link their nutrition choices to valuable life outcomes:
Motivation should direct planning, prioritization, and action
Motivation Aspects
Goal
Vision
Admire
Support
Teamwork
Mentor
Performance
Success
A motivational theory that describes individuals psychological needs for growth – self-determination theory also describes different types of motivational regulation and considers these regulations anywhere on a continuum of motivation.
Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
A state in which a person is not motivated to behave.
Amotivation
Types of Motivation: Self-Determination Theory
Controlled: Amotivated-> External ->Introjected
Autonomous: Identified -> Integrated -> Intrinsic
Types of Motivation: Self-Determination Theory: Identified
The behavior is consistent with my goals
Types of Motivation: Self-Determination Theory: Integrated
The behavior is part of my Identity
Types of Motivation: Self-Determination Theory: Intrinsic
The behavior feels good
Those with motives who feel outside or internal pressure to do certain behaviors.
Controlled Motives
Behaviors that are enacted with a sense of volition and choice – autonomously motivated people want to do the behavior.
Autonomous Motives
Losing weight because there is a weight-loss challenge at work and the winning team gets a prize
Controlled Motives (External)
Losing weight because of the guilt of being overweight
Controlled Motives (Introjected)