Stages of Change
OARS
SPIRIT of MI
Change Talk
100

Name the third stage in the 5 stages of change

What is the Determination/Preparation Stage

100
What does OARS stand for?
O-Open Ended Questions A-Affirmations R-Reflections S-Summarizations
100

What is the ACE acronym in the spirit of MI

A-Autonomy C-Collaboration E-Evocation C-Compassion

100
What is the acronym associated with Change Talk?
DARN-CAT
200

What is an MI strategy that could be used with a Pre-Contemplative client? 

1. Express Empathy

2. Identify internal discrepancies

3. Ask about problems with current behavior.

4. Build on statements of problems with the status quo.

200

Convert this closed question into an open question:

Do you want to go to treatment?

200

The acceptance that the person can and does make their own choices about the course of their own lives is referred to as?

What is Autonomy

200
Identify the change talk:
"It doesn't make sense for me to get a job. No one is going to hire me with a felony. It's important for me to take care of my family, but I can make ten times more money on the street."
300

Someone who is considering making a change is in what stage of change?

What is Contemplation Stage

300

This is an example of what? "What I'm hearing you say is..."

What is a Reflection

300

Name two motivational traps.

Premature Focus

Labeling

Question-Answer

Confrontation/Denial

Expert

Blaming

300

Why don't you? is an example of what?

Backwards Question.

400

Someone that is monitoring themselves to stay on track is in what stage of change?

What is Maintenance Stage

400
This strategy acknowledges what the client is saying and adds to it the other side of the client's ambivalence.
What is 'double-sided reflection'?
400

This is a built-in desire to set things right or a desire to fix.

What is Righting Reflex

400

A confidence ruler is used to assess what in a client?

What is their ability to make a change.

500

"I have joined a gym, have an appointment with a nutritionist and found a workout buddy to meet 3 times a week at 5 pm" This person is in what stage of Change

What is Action Stage

500
Respond to the following using OARS:
"I can't just give up drinking. What will my friends think?"
500

What should be avoided when making client-centered statements?

Avoid using I, ME, or MY.

500

Name two of the four processes of MI.

Engaging

Focusing/Guiding

Evoking

Planning

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