An important tenant of MI is that we do not tell others what to do. Who wants to be told what to do, anyway? Even kids don’t like it. Telling others what to do is often rude and disrespectful. Let me be very clear, however. If your
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I’ve been an MI trainer for 8 years. When I first began learning the techniques of MI as a clinician, and then learned to run my own trainings, I thought I knew all I needed to know about MI I’ve since learned that something new comes up in
Read more →Next week I have the distinct pleasure of conducting a Motivational Interviewing training for the dietetic interns in the Boston area. This is the fourth year in which I’ve offered this training, and it’s one of my favorites. When I was a dietetic intern in 1970-71, we
Read more →Motivational Interviewing was originally developed to help clinicians in working with patients and clients. The idea is that the patient has free will, and can choose whether or not to change behavior. The goal of MI is to help the other person clarify their goals and values,
Read more →For the past 12 years, I have been teaching Nutrition, Public Health and Motivational Interviewing at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Doing this work was a dream I had as an undergrad at Simmons College, also in Boston. I now find myself fulfilling this and many other
Read more →In my last post, I discussed a technique used in Motivational Interviewing called “importance scaling”. The follow up questions are called “confidence scaling” and work in a similar fashion. Here’s how it works. Clinician: Thinking about ________________ change we’ve been discussing, how would you rate your confidence
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Today I conducted a 1/2 day training for the Dietetic Interns in Boston. Dietitians are really my favorites to train, since I’m one of them. I really do “get” who they are and what their goals are for their professional lives. The interns now are having more
Read more →I feel strongly that a working knowledge of MI is important for them. I’m the only faculty member at Northeastern with skills in MI and the ability to teach them to others. Each of my courses includes at least a 90 minute “training” in MI. I put
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