What About When Our Clients Judge Us? How can Motivational Interviewing help?
What About When Our Clients Judge Us? How can Motivational Interviewing help? People judge each other all the time. Judgment is about having an opinion, and we all have opinions!A key component to maintaining the spirit of MI is the ability to suspend our judgment...
Setting Goals Clients Own
Setting Goals Clients Own I can remember in my early days of social work how much my enthusiasm clouded my ability to set goals with clients. The main issues were that 1. I was setting their goals more than they were, and 2. the goals weren’t attainable!In retrospect,...
What’s the relationship between holding clients accountable and Motivational Interviewing?
What’s the relationship between holding clients accountable and Motivational Interviewing? Last week, I wrote about how MI can be useful in talking with clients about ‘accountability’ to program rules (here’s the link!).Today, my focus is on client accountability to...
Is there space for accountability in MI?
Is there space for accountability in MI? A past training participant reached out to pick my brain about how keeping clients accountable fits (or doesn’t fit) with MI. She expressed frustration about clients trying to place the blame on us (providers) for what’s not...
What does it take to REALLY LEARN something new?!
What does it take to REALLY LEARN something new?! Learning MI has been likened to learning a new sport or language. What is a language or sport you have learned? One that you have gotten good at? Found your flow with?How did you get there?My guess is with three...
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