Communication Flashcards
What is MI?
Client centered, directive style that targets the client’s ambivalence about change, naming it and resolving it.
What are the goals of MI?
- Change behavior.
- Develop an ongoing relationship.
- Resolve ambivalence.
- Develop discrepancies.
- Get a commitment to change.
What is OARS?
Open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries.
Open-Ended Questions
Invites the client to go beyond one-word answers and actively engage in the therapeutic process.
Affirming
Affirming the client encourages ongoing communication, disclosure, and growth in the process.
Reflection
Directs the client toward areas for change or exploration of an issue. Roll with resistance, don’t confront it.
Summaries
A form of reflective listening, allows for feedback of a bigger picture of the client situation as it is understood by the practitioner in the session, giving space for the client to further clarify and gain insight.
6-Steps for an effective relationship with a nonvoluntary voluntary client
- Name the circumstance under which the meeting occurs.
- Validate legitimate concerns.
- Identify non-negotiable portions of the intervention.
- Identify what is and is not negotiable as part of the assessment and tx process.
- Negotiate a tx plan that includes the mandatory requirements of the referring authority, but also includes the client’s interests.
- Identify criteria for measuring progress toward the agreed-upon plan and tx goals.
Precontemplation stage
Individual does not even consider a change in his or her situation. Denies they have a problem.
Contemplation
Ambivalence toward change. Considering costs and barriers to change.
Preparation
Individual is experimenting with small changes, considering what it will be like when full change occurs.
Action
Person takes definitive steps to alter the behavior.
Maintenance and relapse prevention
Maintain new behaviors over the long term, preventing a return to using substances and embracing new and healthy habit.s
Close-Ended Questions
Responder is asked for specific, discrete information, such as identifying information. Good for self-administered questionnaires, quantitative research, and interview schedules.
Scaling Questions
Used in solution-focused brief therapy, used to track differences and progress in the client.
Strengths-focused questions
What have you done to get to this (higher score?)
Exception Questions
Have you ever been higher on the scale? What is different on the days when you are one point higher on the scale?
Future-focus questions
Where on the scale would be good enough for you?
(Diagnostic Interviewing Technique) Reflection
-Restate the client’s cognitive or emotional material.
-Identify and feedback the underlying emotional experience.
-Demonstrate empathic understanding.