Motivational Interviewing Flashcards
Spirit
Attitude of extreme respect for your client
Engaging your client
Process of establishing a mutually trusting + respectful helping relationship
4 processes in engaging your client
Engaging
Focussing (collaborative agenda setting)
Evoking
Planning
2 things that can create disengagement
- asking too many questions -> promotes passive stance of client
- being the ‘expert‘ + offering advice/solutions prematurely
Focussing
Collaborative agenda setting
An ongoing process of seeking + maintaining direction
Querying commands
Statements with same intentions as open ended questions
Reflections
Statements made to the client that mirror, give back, repeat, rephrase, paraphrase or otherwise make manifest what you hear the client saying or see doing
GUESSED HYPOTHESES ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE CLIENT‘S MIND AND HEART -> REFLECTING ON WHAT YOU THINK THE CLIENT MEANS
Purpose of using reflections in early part of session
To convey that you are hearing + understanding what your client is telling you, gathering info, building rapport
Summaries
Long reflections during which you reflect some of what you‘ve heard client say during a significant portion of the session
Uses for summaries
- transition to a new topic
- highlight/reinforce some significant client motivational statements
-connect different things you‘ve heard during session - make sure that u understanding what client wants/expects during the session
Affirmations
Statements that you make to your client that recognise clients strenghts, accomplishments, positive behaviour
Goal of focusing
Identify target behaviour/direction in which to proceed to
Counselor advocacy responses
SHOULD BE AVOIDED
Arguing for change, assuming the expert role, criticising, shaming, blaming, labeling, being in a hurry, claiming preeminence
Roadblocks
SHOULD BE AVOIDED
Ordering or commanding, threatening, persuading with logic, moralising, judging, agreeing, interpreting, analysing, humoring.
Ambivalence
Feeling two ways about a decision or potential change in behaviour