Section 2 Flashcards
A moment when the client realizes he or she wants to and doesn’t want to change, at the same time. 
Ambivalence 
This technique is used to help overcome a clients ambivalence toward change. 
Motivational interviewing 
The urge to fix the problem for your clients is known as what 
Righting reflex
What are the four key elements that constitute the spirit of motivational interviewing? 
- Collaboration
- Acceptance
- Compassion
- Evocation 
Eliciting (from the client) the client’s own reasons and arguments for change
Evocation 
Unwavering acceptance of the client
Unconditional positive regard 
A partnership between you, the coach, and your client grounded in the point of view and experience of the client 
Collaboration 
Which one of the elements that constitute the Spirit of motivational interviewing is based on the belief that the majority of the answers can be found within the client, not from the coach?
Evocation 
What are the four processes of motivational interviewing?
- Engaging
- Focusing
- Evoking
- Planning
The heart of motivational interviewing that will help you elicit your clients own motivations for change
Evoking 
What are the main skills to use when using motivational interviewing? 
- Open ended questions
- Affirmations
- Reflective listening
- Summarizing
This skill of motivational interviewing recognizes the client’s strengths, intentions, accomplishments and efforts, and is used to build client self efficacy and confidence. 
Affirmations 
These type of questions that are used in motivational interviewing usually begin with “what” or “how”. 
Open ended questions 
These type of questions are not always intended to gather information, but rather to help you understand your clients frame of reference. They can also be important icebreakers to help you build rapport. 
Open ended questions
When using affirmations, you should use the word _____ instead of _____.
“You” instead of “I”
This skill of motivational interviewing combines verbal and nonverbal responses to indicate interest and understanding 
Reflective listening 
Reflective listening is also referred to as this
Active listening 
This skill of motivational interviewing seeks to provide clarifying points that are often a “best guess” at interpreting client statements
Reflective listening 
A skill of motivational interviewing that collects what the client has been saying and offers it back to them 
Summarizing
Statements that reflect a desire to change
Change talk 
The process by which people attempt to replace habitual unproductive thinking with more helpful thoughts
Cognitive restructuring 
Does strength-based coaching focus on the past, present or future? 
Future
Does cognitive behavioral coaching focus on the past, present or future? 
Present
This approach uses a guided discovery method to help individuals change unproductive thoughts and feelings that may be roadblocks in their behavior change plans. 
Cognitive behavioral coaching
Highlights of this approach include addressing cognitive distortions and irrational beliefs, as well as cognitive restructuring. 
Cognitive behavioral coaching
What is a helpful model for identifying and disputing erroneous beliefs? 
The ABCDE model 
What are the steps in the ABCDE model for uncovering unproductive thoughts?
A = Activating event (the event or situation that is associated with unproductive thinking)
B = Belief (the belief associated with the event that may have helped trigger the event)
C = Consequences (emotional and behavioral)
D = Disputing the negative thinking and trying to replace it with a more productive one
E = Effect (referring to the new effect, involves more productive emotions and behaviors)
A style of communication in which the professional takes charge of the conversation and advises an individual on what to do 
A directing style
A style of communication used in motivational interviewing in which the coach encourages, supports and assists the client in the process of change. 
A guiding style 
Simple re-statements of what the client has said 
Simple reflections 
A guess at the underlying meaning of what the client has said 
Complex reflections 
A simple or complex reflection in response to a clients sustained talk 
Straight reflections 
These are overstated reflections that challenge the client to think more about a statement he or she has made, usually sustain talk 
Amplified reflections 
These integrate a clients sustain talk with the clients own previously stated change talk. The clients statements are restated, joined by “and” with the sustain talk, stated first, followed by the change talk. 
Double sided reflections 
A skill of motivational interviewing that not only demonstrates effective listing, but also gives the health coach an opportunity to transition a conversation that is wandering too far off topic, or keep a session on track in terms of time 
Summarizing
An approach that is used as part of motivational interviewing in which the coach first asks permission before providing information, and then utilizes open ended questions to understand what the client already knows on the topic 
Elicit provide elicit
In general, health coaches should avoid informing and advising. When it becomes necessary, this is the best approach to use. 
Elicit provide elicit 
What are the four broad processes that form the flow of motivational interviewing? 
- Engaging
- Focusing.
- Evoking.
- Planning. 
The process of discovering and discussing the clients own motivations for change
 Evoking 
A process in which the health coach guides the client to make his or her arguments for change by strategically responding to both sustain talk and change talk
 Evoking 
A coaching approach that uses a guided discovery method (similar to MI) to help individuals identify, examine, challenge, and change unproductive thoughts and feelings that may be interfering with their behavior change plans. 
Cognitive behavioral coaching 
A coaching approach based on the idea that negative or self-defeating thoughts can lead to negative emotions and in turn to negative behaviors. 
Cognitive behavioral coaching 
Cognitive behavioral coaching encourages clients to become aware of the commentary that runs along inside one’s mind throughout the day also known as this 
Self talk 
Irrational and usually harmful thought patterns that interfere with a persons well-being 
Cognitive distortions
Something a person assumes to be true, but is actually an unreasonable concept often acquired from one’s family or culture, and usually reflects a judgment that something is other than it should be 
Irrational belief