Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change

By G. Tober. 2013

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Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change . William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick (3rd edn), New York: Guilford Press, 2013. £39.99. 482 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60918-227-4. Description of and instruction in the art of motivational interviewing (MI) has made a significant contribution to the optimism of practitioners treating addiction disorders. This is the field in which MI arose 30 years ago. Its use has generalized into other health behaviour change interventions, and beyond into general decision making. For the addiction field, the essence of the contribution has been to give practitioners a set of skills to deal with that most challenging characteristic of people with addiction disorders, namely resistance to change. This third edition of Motivational Interviewing elaborates on the method described in the two previous editions (Miller and Rollnick, 1991, 2002), but without the assistance of contributing authors and with the change of the sub-title to ‘Helping People Change’. The previous sub-titles were: Volume 1 ‘Helping People Change Addictive Behaviour’ and Volume 2: ‘Preparing People for Change’. These subtle differences are important; the practice of MI appears to stop where the behaviour change plan begins. Hence, arguably the second volume's sub-title is the most apt. All are based on the once novel approach in …

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Psilocybin-assisted treatment for alcohol dependence: A proof-of-concept study (2015, positive): “The psychosocial intervention comprised a total of 12 sessions: seven sessions of Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET: a structured approach using the principles of motivational interviewing (Miller and Rolnick, 2013)), three preparation sessions, and two debriefing sessions.”
Affective Determinants of Health Behavior (2018, background): “…to Change Motivation to change can be effectively increased through motivational interviewing (MI), a technique originally developed in addiction (p.170) treatment research and now used more widely to increase motivation to change behaviors related to (mental) health (Miller & Rollnick, 2013).”
Successful behavior change in obesity interventions in adults: a systematic review of self-regulation mediators (2015, methodology): “In the area of motivation enhancement, the techniques and instruments used in motivational interviewing [111,112] are a good example of such potential application in medicine and health care.”
Strategies for Improving Long-Term Outcomes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Insights From Learning Theory (2014, background): “Strategies from the motivational interviewing literature to help elicit “change talk” (e.g., “Looking forward technique”; Miller & Rollnick, 2013) can be useful when therapist and patient goals are misaligned.”
The Psychology of Encouragement (2015, methodology): “The confidence ruler technique (W. R. Miller & Rollnick, 2013) bears some resemblance to scaling questions in SFT and involves asking clients how confident they are of implementing the change they desire on a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 represents total confidence.”
Motivational interviewing in medical care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. (2013, background): “MI is both flexible and robust, producing desirable outcomes across many problem areas in different formats [4].”