How can we accept our patient/client’s decisions not to change behavior when we think those changes are crucial? A very important idea in MI is that we must accept our client’s decisions about if, when and how they will change. This might include not making any changes, or not the ones we feel they must […]
More Powerful, Positive Techniques for Change in Motivational Interviewing
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 that you could make this change? Use a […]
