What is Motivational Interviewing?
- 1 October 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
- Vol. 23 (4), 325-334
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s135246580001643x
Abstract
Motivational interviewing is a directive, client-centred counselling style for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. It is most centrally defined not by technique but by its spirit as a facilitative style for interpersonal relationship. This article seeks to define motivational interviewing and to characterize its essential nature, differentiating it from other approaches with which it may be confused. A brief update is also provided regarding (1) evidence for its efficacy and (2) new problem areas and populations to which it is being applied.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effects of Normative Feedback on Consumption among Heavy Drinking College StudentsJournal of Drug Education, 1995
- Impact of motivational interviewing on participation and outcome in residential alcoholism treatment.Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 1993
- Project MATCH: Rationale and Methods for a Multisite Clinical Trial Matching Patients to Alcoholism TreatmentAlcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research, 1993
- Motivational Interviewing with Alcohol OutpatientsBehavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 1993
- Methods of helping patients with behaviour change.BMJ, 1993
- Brief interventions for alcohol problems: a reviewAddiction, 1993
- Enhancing motivation for change in problem drinking: A controlled comparison of two therapist styles.Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993
- Negotiating behaviour change in medical settings: The development of brief motivational interviewingJournal of Mental Health, 1992
- The cost effectiveness of treatment for alcoholism: a first approximation.Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1991
- Failure of a 2-hour motivational intervention to alter recurrent drinking behavior in alcoholics with gastrointestinal disease.Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1990