.A pocket guide to Motivational
InterviewingDeep roots and a strong trunk helps produce fruit you are working toward ‘OARS’ Listen till you understand strategies Processes Principles Spirit The Spirit of MI Partnership Acceptance Compassion Evoking Principles (RULE) Avoid the righting reflex Understand Listen Empower There is something in human nature that resists being coerced and told what to do. Ironically, it is acknowledging their freedom to choose and not change that sometimes makes change possible. What will you do to stay consistent with the spirit and principals of MI?
The core skills of MI
O: Open questions: to explore concerns,
promote collaboration, and understand the
client’s perspective.
A: Affirmations: to support strengths, convey
respect.
R: Reflective listening: to explore deeper,
convey understanding, deflect discord, elicit
change talk.
S: Summarise: to organise discussion, clarify
motivation, provide contrast, focus the
session and highlight change talk.
Reflect with each question if possible:-
Encouraging the other person to
elaborate, amplify, confirm, or correct.
• A Simple Reflection may use different
words but stays at the same meaning
• A complex reflection makes a guess
about what the person means.
It adds something that deepens
understanding and encourages
further exploration.
Use variety in your reflections:-
Sounds like…
What I’m hearing is…
So you’re saying that…
You’re feeling like…
For you, it’s a matter of….
From your point of view,…
You are…
I would imagine you…
Must be…
Through your eyes,…
Your belief is that…
Your concern is that…
It seems to you that…
You’re not terribly excited about…
You’re not much concerned about…
The thing that bothers you is…
The important thing as you see it is…
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