Topic One - motivational interviewing
1. When you go to the What works? motivational dialogue page...
Watch the video of Professor Carlo DiClemente and take careful note of his emphasis on the need absolutely to listen to your service user in order to match your intervention to where they are at. Memorise his checklist.
Watch the video of Professor Bill Miller and notice how he builds on Carlo DiClemente’s emphasis on the processes of change and the importance of structure and focus. Memorise his checklist.
2. When you go to the Motivational Interventions Research page...
Read through the summaries of the selected research findings. Meta-analyses are particularly important because they pool the data from a number of studies to give a picture of the state of knowledge. Be sure you have digested the Lundahl et al. study.
The model by Magill et al. is useful to keep in mind and further supported by Drage et al..
In the last section the studies by Gaume et al. and Brown et al. dig deep into the particular skills that make a difference.
3. Write down your thoughts on…
What are the three most important things for you to take away from this task that will guide your practice?
