Building motivational interviewing skills: a practitioner workbook

Introduction

What is MI and why use it?

Introduction to the four processes

The use of OARS : reflective listening

The use of OARS : open-ended questions, affirmations, and summaries

Exploring values and goals

Finding the horizon

Exchanging information

Recognizing change and sustain talk

Evoking motivation

Responding to sustain talk and dancing with discord

Transitioning into planning

Developing a change plan, strengthening commitment, and supporting change

Learning MI

Establishing an MI learning community.

Introduction

Foundations of MI

The use of OARS: reflective listening

The use of OARS: open-ended questions, affirmations, and summaries

Recognizing, reinforcing, and eliciting change talk

Managing resistance

Opening a session or topic

Working with ambivalence

Information sharing, offering a concern, and giving advice

The key question

Negotiating a treatment plan

Learning MI.