How can we understand when patients or clients don’t change a behavior that we think is critical for them to change? For example, the person whose diabetes is out of control, the smoker who has emphysema, the person with high blood pressure who won’t take their medication. To understand this, I encourage you to think […]
Powerful, Positive Change Techniques in Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing has many very simple and useful techniques designed to help clients move forward in the direction of positive change. One of these is called “Importance Scaling”. Here’s how it works. Clinician: Think about _____________change we have been discussing. Now let me ask you on a scale from 0 to 10, in which 0 […]
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