Motivational Interviewing

At the live meeting November 4 we will be continuing our work in Motivational Interviewing. Please continue to record visits with patients with your digital voice recorders. Those of you who do not have a voice recorder will be receiving one at your health center for this purpose. We will be listening to patient visits in groups as we did at April's live meeting. It was so valuable to listen together to increase efficacy and share best practices in MI. The new article attached in your email by William Miller and Gary Rose shares recent research in Motivational Interviewing including how MI affects change talk and how that impacts behavior change. It also compares outcomes with interventions with or without MI.

I have also included a link below that helps identify stages of change. Included in this link are sample scripts to help MI practitioners at all stages of change, including pre-contemplation, to help patients move forward with behavior changes they want.

http://www.cellinteractive.com/ucla/physcian_ed/stages_change.html