Motivational Interview Flashcards

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3 central MI concepts

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  1. Readiness
  2. Ambivalence
  3. Resistance
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Readiness and its role in MI

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  1. How ready is a person for a change
    - on what stage of change is a person
  2. Impacts the action that follows the MI-Intervention
    - Counselor must be sure about the stage of the client
    - influences which methods are used
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Readiness measurements in MI

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6 Stages of change
1. Pre-contemplation
2. contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
6. Relapse

Readiness Ruler

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Readiness importance in MI

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  • Readiness is in the client
  • The methods must be related to the level of readiness
  • Wrong assumed readiness by counselor can create resistance
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Ambivalence

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  • Feeling different ways about one’s own behavior
  • often contains discomfort
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Ambivalence importance in MI

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  1. Counselor helps the client discover ambivalence
  2. Main driver for the behavior change when discovered
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Resistance in MI

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  • Often the result of counselors’ behavior or previous experience of the client
    A client can be:
    1. reluctant to change
    2. suspicious of the counselor’s intentions and prejudice
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Forms how a client shows resistance in a Motivational Interview

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  1. Arguing
    - against expertise, the accuracy of the counselor
  2. Interrupting
    - the counselor in a defensive manner
  3. Denying
    - the own problems, responsibility, and cooperation
  4. Ignoring
    - the counselor advises
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principles of MI

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  1. Express empathy (EE)
  2. roll with resistance (RR)
  3. develop discrepancies (DD)
  4. support self-efficacy (SS)
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Express Empathy

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The first phase of building a trust
Techniques:
1. Reflective listening (rephrase to show understanding and interest)

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How to Roll with resistance

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  1. Avoid confrontations
  2. shift attention
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Develop discrepancies

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  1. Let the client set goals
  2. Ask the client about the perceived consequences of their own current behavior
  3. Cost and Benefits of change and no change
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Support self-efficacy

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  1. Support the confidence of the client in their own abilities to change
  2. Self-affirmation can be used to rise confidence
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OARS

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To advance in the stages of change
1. Open ended question
- elicits change talk in the client
2. Affirmation
- reduce resistance against topic
3. reflective listening
- build trust and reduce resistance against counselor
- highlighting ambivalence
4. Summarising
- strengthen autonomy, highlights clients change talk

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Normalizing

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  • difficulties with changing are not uncommon
  • lowers pressure to change
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Levels of reflection

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  1. Simple = repeating
  2. Complex = rephrasing
    • Affective - emphasised the emotional dimension
    • Values - emphasized beliefs & principles
    • Continuing the the clients argumentation
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Advice Giving

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Only with permission
On goals or informations
Can also be hidden in reflective listening and summarizing

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Change Talk

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Is about eliciting change talk by the client
The client makes statements like
- disadvantage of staying the same
- the advantages of change
- optimism about change
- the intention to change

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How to elicit change talk in the client

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  1. asking evocative questions
    • disadvantage of status quo
    • advantage of change
    • optimism
    • change intention
  2. Using the “importance ruler”
  3. Exploring the decisional balance (4-field matrix)
    • consequences of changing and not changing
  4. Querying extremes
    • what would be the worst outcome if you continue
  5. Looking back
    • have there been successes in the past?
  6. Looking forward
    • where do you want to be?
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Limitations of MI

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  1. Most useful for clients with low motivation
  2. Should not be used as a method alone
21
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Self-Determination Theory in MI

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  1. Integrating SDT to differentiate between motivation types and their impact on behavior change
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SDT Autonomy and MI

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The change in the hand has to come from the client
Own goals, own way, own answers to open questions
Develop discrepancies (let the client develop them)
Roll with resistance

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SDT Relatedness and MI

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Counselor & client relationship
Express Empathy without blaming

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SDT Competence and MI

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Support self-efficacy
giving professional feedback if client agrees

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Stage 1: Pre-contemplation

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  1. are unaware of any problem related to their behavior
  2. are unconcerned about their behavior or even enjoy it
  3. unconcerned about consequences
    help could provide:
    - reducing resistance
    - help recognize, motivate
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Stage 2: Contemplation

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  1. are sometimes worried about the difficulties the behavior is causing
  2. debating with themselves whether to not they have a problem
  3. consider changing
    help could provide:
    - reducing resistance
    - support the thoughts
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Stage 3: Determination/Preparation

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  1. getting ready to make a change
    help could provide:
    - support self-efficacy, feedback on clients ideas on how to change
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Stage 4: Action

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  1. changing process
    help could provide:
    - goal setting, support self-efficacy (competence), feedback on process
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Step 5: Maintenance

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  1. change is made and maintained
    help could provide:
    - building resistance against temptations
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Relapse in the stages of change

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  1. normalized process
  2. client learns from trying and relapsing
  3. the client usually does not go back to pre-contemplation
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What to avoid in MI

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Question-answer trap
Confrontation-denial trap
Expert trap
Labeling trap
Premature focus trap
Blaming trap
Lack of time trap

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Traditional Approach in relation MI

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Giving the client a solution that does not fit the client
Trying change by increasing bad feelings

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What can change the impact of MI (Behavior change methods) from person to person?

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  1. Difficulty to build a Counselor-client relationship
    - same age vs. different age, cultural differences, sometimes better when the counselor is not a clinical expert
  2. social influences (social environment) either supportive or not
    - connected to role models, social determinants
  3. Experience of Counselors
  4. Anticipations of the person
    - e.g. self-efficacy = overestimation of MI as behavior change
    - Intervention effect = something was done so it has to have an effect
  5. Goal
    - what MI is supposed to affect is too strict and leaves no room for own goals
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What methods can be used to support MI?

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  1. CBT and group therapy for maintaining the motivation and changing the behavior long term