Ask-Offer-Ask Motivational Interviewing example in a convo with my teen when she pierced her bellybutton with a safety pin!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ask-Offer-Ask Motivational Interviewing example in a convo with my teen when she pierced her bellybutton with a safety pin! Ask-Offer-Ask is a Motivational Interviewing tool that is used when exchanging information or advice. The goal is to...
MI Tip: Empathy in Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes MI Tip: Empathy in Motivational Interviewing In a training I provided recently, participants got into a deep discussion on what empathy is and how it fits in with Motivational Interviewing (MI). Empathy is the ability to understand, and even...
The Planning task of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning!
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Planning task of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Action Planning! There are four tasks in Miller & Rollnicks’ Motivational Interviewing: Engagement, Focusing, Evoking & Planning. The final task of Miller & Rollnicks’ MI,...
When to use (and not use) Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes When to use (and not use) Motivational Interviewing As Motivational Interviewers, we are not using Motivational Interviewing to get someone to do what we want them to do. Getting someone else to do what we want them to do is manipulation. ...
A RULE of Motivational Interviewing
Reading Time: 4 minutes A RULE of Motivational Interviewing Are you familiar with the RULE acronym in Motivational Interviewing? RULE is sometimes referred to as the “guiding principles” of Motivational Interviewing. The RULE Motivational Interviewing acronym...
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