I* recently came across an interesting article in the Guardian (Australian edition) about the impact of the words we use, particularly when we are trying to negotiate and influence others. This can happen in many situations, from tense life threatening hostage...

Using Motivational Interviewing (MI) enables clinicians to support and initiate behaviour change in the management and treatment of clients with chronic disease. Randomised control studies have demonstrated its particular usefulness in working with people struggling...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) - two styles of communication with a client struggling with alcohol use Rick has been convicted of drink driving and has lost his licence for four months. Because Rick’s job involves driving to see clients his employer has stipulated he...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a well-known, accepted approach to helping people struggling with behaviour change. It has been proven effective in randomised control trials across a number of health care settings (Lundahl 2010). It is only recently, however, that...

The concepts of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change (TTM) are often linked and connected in the literature (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). However, the idea that MI is based on the TTM is not correct (Miller & Rollnick,...

Ambivalence and Motivational Interviewing During general introductions at Motivational Interviewing Training workshops it is not uncommon to hear participants at the start of the day say they want to learn “how to motivate” others. Generally, these “others” are...

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...

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...

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 other...

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...

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...

(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....