Chapter 16: Motivational Interviewing

Question 1

Which of the following is defined as being the source of one’s behavior?

Answer 1

Autonomy

Question 2

What can help a client define the best version of themselves?

Answer 2

Values

Question 3

Discrepancies drive behavior change most of the time. That being said, which example of a discrepancy would likely be the most demotivating rather than motivating?

Answer 3

A client who weighs 220 pounds and wants to weigh 140 pounds

Question 4

Which of the following reframes the idea of failures as ineffective solutions?

Answer 4

A process mindset

Question 5

A competing demand between a client’s desire to lose weight and their desire to eat chocolate characterizes which of the following?

Answer 5

Ambivalence

Question 6

Which of the following is defined as the seemingly paradoxical state where a client wants to change but also does not want to change?
Ambivalence

Answer 6

Ambivalence

Question 7

A client is not sure that they can reduce their intake of snacks at work, but their Nutrition Coach reminds them that they felt the same way when they thought they could not reduce their alcohol intake. The coach is using which of the following to increase this client’s self-efficacy for the specific task of reducing snacks?

Answer 7

Verbal persuasion

Question 8

Clients should feel as if their own unique change experience is truly understood by the coach. Doing which of the following can accomplish this?

Answer 8

Expressing empathy

Question 9

A coach summarizes and restates what a client has just told them by saying, “This is the third time you have made a serious effort at losing weight in the last two years. The goal is personally important to you for health reasons, but you are also worried about staying committed to the goal over the long haul.” Which of the following is the coach expressing?

Answer 9

Accurate empathy

Question 10

Which of the following is taken away if a Nutrition Coach tells a client what to do and does not ask for their opinion?

Answer 10

Autonomy

Question 11

Which of the following terms refers to a client who eats healthy food because eating food is connected to their identity?

Answer 11

Integrated regulation

Question 12

Which of the following varies along a continuum and is reflective of the level to which a behavior is integrated into an individual’s values or identity?

Answer 12

Motivational regulation

Question 13

Which of the following is consistent with motivational interviewing?

Answer 13

Supporting self-efficacy

Question 14

Which of the following is defined as all of the brain processes used to energize and direct behavior?

Answer 14

Motivation

Question 15

Self-efficacy is mediated by how many sources?

Answer 15

4

Question 16

Which of the following is true in regards to motivational interviewing?

Answer 16

It is a client-centered approach for enhancing intrinsic motivation.

Question 17

Which stage of change describes people who have no intention to act, and what might a Nutrition Coach do to progress them?

Answer 17

Precontemplation; empathetic and reflective listening

Question 18

With which of the following does motivational interviewing start?

Answer 18

Collaboration

Question 19

Which of the following is the theory that proposes that motivation lies on a continuum from amotivation, to extrinsic motivation, to intrinsic motivation?

Answer 19

Self-determination theory

Question 20

How many basic psychological needs are there in self-determination theory?

Answer 20

3

Question 21

In which stage of change might a Nutrition Coach help clients develop feasible plans for action?

Answer 21

Preparation

Question 22

How many motivational interviewing strategies are there?

Answer 22

5

Question 23

A client improves their self-efficacy by successfully food prepping. Which of the following are they using to improve their self-efficacy?

Answer 23

Performance accomplishments

Question 24

Changing because of outside pressures is a controlled motive; however, changing because an individual wants to change is considered to be which one of the following?

Answer 24

Autonomous motive

Question 25

Which of the following allows for empathetic listening to occur?

Answer 25

The Nutrition Coach respects and accepts the client.

Question 26

Which of the following can be described as a lack of harmony in the client-coach relationship?

Answer 26

Dissonance

Question 27

Which of the following is not a motivational interviewing strategy?

Answer 27

Creating arguments

Question 28

Which construct is the least subject to change?

Answer 28

Values