by Barb | Jan 31, 2017 | In Focus Articles
What specifically is it in the Motivational Interviewing (MI) relationship that moves the client toward change? Recent research (Apodaca et al, 2015), examined therapist behaviours that elicit both change talk (client moving towards change) and sustain talk (client...
by Barb | Dec 16, 2016 | In Focus Articles
Contemporary healthcare and clinical research continually strive to find the cure or answer for illness and disease and methods of improving clinical outcomes. Clinicians armed with this clinical and research knowledge attempt to implement such findings in clinical...
by Barb | Oct 26, 2016 | In Focus Articles
Contributed by Barb Bowler – Veriti Director At Veriti Motivational Interviewing workshops we ask participants to choose something in their own life that they are currently working on changing, or thinking of changing, and that they are willing to share with...
by Barb | Feb 11, 2016 | In Focus Articles
Contributed by Barb Bowler (Veriti Director) What is it that makes a clinician begin to consider undertaking clinical supervision training? For me, after an early discouraging experience of clinical supervision (see my earlier post), I began to receive really helpful...
by Barb | Jul 14, 2015 | In Focus Articles
Georgina* is a 35 year old mother of three young children. She has had asthma since childhood and frequent admissions to hospital for this, throughout her life. One of the struggles Georgina has is in continuing to take her medication when she is feeling well and not...
by Barb | Jun 9, 2015 | In Focus Articles
(This article includes an exercise for you to try and the opportunity to feedback to Veriti via Facebook, regarding your experience). In motivational interviewing, reflective listening is the primary skill used to demonstrate empathy, interest and understanding....
