Chapter 16: Motivational Interviewing Flashcards
Which of the following is defined as being the source of one’s behavior?
Autonomy
What can help a client define the best version of themselves?
Values
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?
A client who weighs 220 pounds and wants to weigh 140 pounds
Which of the following reframes the idea of failures as ineffective solutions?
A process mindset
A competing demand between a client’s desire to lose weight and their desire to eat chocolate characterizes which of the following?
Ambivalence
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
Ambivalence
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?
Verbal persuasion
Clients should feel as if their own unique change experience is truly understood by the coach. Doing which of the following can accomplish this?
Expressing empathy
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?
Accurate empathy
Which of the following is taken away if a Nutrition Coach tells a client what to do and does not ask for their opinion?
Autonomy
Which of the following terms refers to a client who eats healthy food because eating food is connected to their identity?
Integrated regulation
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?
Motivational regulation
Which of the following is consistent with motivational interviewing?
Supporting self-efficacy
Which of the following is defined as all of the brain processes used to energize and direct behavior?
Motivation
Self-efficacy is mediated by how many sources?
4
Which of the following is true in regards to motivational interviewing?
It is a client-centered approach for enhancing intrinsic motivation.
Which stage of change describes people who have no intention to act, and what might a Nutrition Coach do to progress them?
Precontemplation; empathetic and reflective listening
With which of the following does motivational interviewing start?
Collaboration
Which of the following is the theory that proposes that motivation lies on a continuum from amotivation, to extrinsic motivation, to intrinsic motivation?
Self-determination theory
How many basic psychological needs are there in self-determination theory?
3
In which stage of change might a Nutrition Coach help clients develop feasible plans for action?
Preparation
How many motivational interviewing strategies are there?
5
A client improves their self-efficacy by successfully food prepping. Which of the following are they using to improve their self-efficacy?
Performance accomplishments
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?
Autonomous motive
Which of the following allows for empathetic listening to occur?
The Nutrition Coach respects and accepts the client.
Which of the following can be described as a lack of harmony in the client-coach relationship?
Dissonance
Which of the following is not a motivational interviewing strategy?
Creating arguments
Which construct is the least subject to change?
Values
