Stages of Change
Reflecting
OARS
Rolling with Resistance
Moving Forward
100
This is the first stage of change
What is the Pre-contemplative stage?
100
A simple acknowledgement of the client’s disagreement, emotion, or perception
What is Simple Reflection?
100
Questions that require more than a yes or no answer
What are Open-ended Questions?
100
When resistance is reduced, this increases
What is Change Talk?
100
"I want to change my eating habits but food is just so expensive and I can't afford it!" is an example of this
What is sustain talk?
200
The stage of change that this statement respresents: "I have lost 20 lbs already and working on losing more!"
What is the Action stage?
200
A reflection that includes both client sustain talk and change talk, usually with the conjunction “and”
What is Double-sided Reflection?
200
Repeating back a response to check for accuracy is known in MI as
What is Reflection?
200
Used in place of trying to persuade, convince, or direct, this tecnique involves moving alongside the client and listening to his or her motives and reasons
What is Rolling with Resistance?
200
A scaling system (usually 1-10) where people are asked to rate their emotional readiness for change
What is Readiness Ruler?
300
In this stage, people are on a teeter-totter, weighing the pros and cons of quitting or modifying their behavior
What is Contemplation stage?
300
A response in which the interviewer reflects back the client’s content with greater intensity than the client had expressed
What is Amplified Reflection?
300
An interviewer statement valuing a positive client attribute or behavior
What is Affirming?
300
Talk that does not move the member toward change
What is Sustain Talk?
300
These two things are commonly assessed when using the readiness ruler
What are importance and confidence?
400
Along the way to permanent change or reduction of a bad habit, many people experience this
What is Relapse?
400
A method of reflective listening in which the counselor offers what might be the next (as yet unspoken) sentence in the client’s paragraph
What is Continuing the Paragraph?
400
A reflection that draws together content from two or more prior client statements
What is Summary?
400
Interpersonal behavior that reflects dissonance in the working relationship
What is Discord?
400
This acrynom is a type of preparatory change talk
What is DARN?
500
Their motivation for changing is reflected by statements such as: "I've got to do something about this - this is serious. Something has to change. What can I do?"
What is Preparation?
500
A response to persistent sustain talk or discord in which the interviewer accepts and reflects the client’s theme
What is Coming Alongside?
500
Tool used to move the person forward by eliciting change talk or self-motivational statements
What is OARS?
500
This can help to repair discord in a member relationship
What is affirmation and reflection?
500
This acronym is a type of mobilizing change talk
What is CATs?
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