Communication Skills
Seeking and acknowledging a person's strengths and efforts, these can be both simple and complex.
What is an affirmation?
Eliciting the person's own motivation for a particular change.
What is evoking?
A nonjudgmental, empathetic, and affirming approach make up this aspect of MI Spirit.
What is acceptance?
Any client speech that favors movement towards change.
What is change talk?
Any client speech favoring the status quo.
What is sustain talk?
The style of question most used in Motivational Interviewing.
What is an open-ended question?
Establishing a mutually trusting and respectful helping relationship. This should make up about 20% of every session.
What is engaging?
Interviewer acts benevolently to promote the client's welfare, giving priority to the client's needs. This is an element of MI Spirit that was added later.
What is compassion?
It spells CATs when you combine the first letter of each and word are kinds of mobilizing change talk.
What is commitment, activation, taking steps?
It accurately reflects what the person has said, adding to its intensity or meaning.
What is a complex reflection?
A reflection that draws together from two or more prior client statements.
What is a summary?
Clarifying a particular goal or direction for change.
What is focusing?
Helps an individual to realize and utilize their own strengths and abilities to make their own choices.
What is empowerment?
"Tell me about a time in your life when you were not using as much as you are now." What is this technique called?
What is evocative question.
An interviewer reflection that includes both client sustain talk and change talk, usually using the conjunction “and.”
What is a double-sided reflection?
An interviewer statement intended to mirror meaning (explicit or implicit) of preceding client speech.
What is a reflection?
Involves developing a specific change plan that the client is willing to implement. This is also the optional task.
What is planning?
Interviewer functions as a partner or companion, collaborating with the client's own expertise.
What is partnership?
It spells DARN when you combine the first letter of each word and is part of preparatory change talk.
What is Desire, Ability, Reason, Need?
Interpersonal behavior that reflects dissonance in the working relationship.
What is discord?