OARS Skills Archives | Page 6 of 9 | Motivational Interviewing Blog

Polishing Up on Those OQ’s

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Mar 18, 2021 | OARS Skills, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesOQ stands for Open-ended Questions in Motivational Interviewing. And today, we are going to go beyond just OQs and talk about WHAT kind of OQ’s we use… OQ’s are the first of the O.A.R.S. skills- the microskills of Motivational Interviewing....

Asking Permission First

by Chris Miles | Mar 11, 2021 | OARS Skills, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all have those moments when we’re talking to someone who is telling you about a struggle or challenge, and you think to yourself, “I know what will help. I have a great idea for you! I’ve had other people deal with this same...

What is Equipoise?!

by Chris Miles | Feb 4, 2021 | OARS Skills, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe founders of Motivational Interviewing (William Miller and Stephen Rollnick) define MI as “A directive, client-centered, counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.” ...

How to gather info about difficult topics!

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Jan 28, 2021 | OARS Skills, Spirit of Motivational Interviewing

Reading Time: < 1 minutesHere’s another tool for approaching “itchy topics” with clients using a tool from Motivational Interviewing. What’s an “itchy topic?” (Check out my first blog post on these here) An itchy topic is a hard-to-approach topic with clients! It...

Finding my keys and other things that need REFRAMING!

by Chris de Beer | Jan 14, 2021 | OARS Skills

Reading Time: 2 minutesA word from MINT trainer Chris de Beer: Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about one of the most powerful tools that we have in our MI tool box, and that is reframing. What is a reframe? Reframing is a specific type of reflection in which...

Connecting to Your WHY

by Hillary Logan, LCSW, LCAS | Dec 10, 2020 | OARS Skills, The Change Process

Reading Time: 2 minutesHey folks! This is third in a series of three on using Motivational Interviewing with yourSELF! Click here for the blog links for one and two. So if you have a change that you are feeling stuck around, or really wishing you could get some...