Motivational Interview Flashcards
3 central MI concepts
- Readiness
- Ambivalence
- Resistance
Readiness and its role in MI
- How ready is a person for a change
- on what stage of change is a person - Impacts the action that follows the MI-Intervention
- Counselor must be sure about the stage of the client
- influences which methods are used
Readiness measurements in MI
6 Stages of change
1. Pre-contemplation
2. contemplation
3. Preparation
4. Action
5. Maintenance
6. Relapse
Readiness Ruler
Readiness importance in MI
- Readiness is in the client
- The methods must be related to the level of readiness
- Wrong assumed readiness by counselor can create resistance
Ambivalence
- Feeling different ways about one’s own behavior
- often contains discomfort
Ambivalence importance in MI
- Counselor helps the client discover ambivalence
- Main driver for the behavior change when discovered
Resistance in MI
- 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
Forms how a client shows resistance in a Motivational Interview
- Arguing
- against expertise, the accuracy of the counselor - Interrupting
- the counselor in a defensive manner - Denying
- the own problems, responsibility, and cooperation - Ignoring
- the counselor advises
principles of MI
- Express empathy (EE)
- roll with resistance (RR)
- develop discrepancies (DD)
- support self-efficacy (SS)
Express Empathy
The first phase of building a trust
Techniques:
1. Reflective listening (rephrase to show understanding and interest)
How to Roll with resistance
- Avoid confrontations
- shift attention
Develop discrepancies
- Let the client set goals
- Ask the client about the perceived consequences of their own current behavior
- Cost and Benefits of change and no change
Support self-efficacy
- Support the confidence of the client in their own abilities to change
- Self-affirmation can be used to rise confidence
OARS
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
Normalizing
- difficulties with changing are not uncommon
- lowers pressure to change