Table of Contents:
  • Conversations about change
  • The spirit of motivational interviewing
  • The method of motivational interviewing
  • Engagement and disengagement
  • Listening: understanding the person's dilemma
  • Core interviewing skills: OARS
  • Exploring values and goals
  • Why focus?
  • Finding the horizon
  • When goals differ
  • Exchanging information
  • Ambivalence: change talk and sustain talk
  • Evoking the person's own motivation
  • Responding to change talk
  • Responding to sustain talk and discord
  • Evoking hope and confidence
  • Counseling with neutrality
  • Developing discrepancy
  • From evoking to planning
  • Developing a change plan
  • Strengthening commitment
  • Supporting change
  • Experiencing motivational interviewing
  • Learning motivational interviewing
  • Applying motivational interviewing
  • Integrating motivational interviewing
  • Research evidence and the evolution of motivational interviewing
  • Evaluating motivational conversations
  • Appendix A: Glossary of motivational interviewing terms
  • Appendix B: A bibliography of motivational interviewing.