Becoming skilled in MI: rewards and challenges.(Research-to-Practice)(Motivational Interviewing)

From: Addiction Professional | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a counseling style that's generating a great deal of "buzz" lately. For good reason.

Randomized clinical trials using MI with real-world clients have provided substantial evidence that MI reduces client resistance, enhances motivation for change, improves compliance in treatment, and improves outcomes following treatment. See www.motivationalinterview.org for a bibliography of papers and studies. In these studies, though, MI has been evaluated only as part of a brief motivational intervention (BMI). BMIs typically include an assessment, ...

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