Core MI Refresher

MI Spirit

100

This conversation style is used to strengthen a client's own motivation and commitment to change

Motivational Interviewing

200

The experience of putting yourself in someone else's shoes and feeling what they're feeling

Empathy

300

These are the four components of the MI spirit

Partnership, acceptance, compassion, evocation

400

This component of the MI spirit states that MI is done “with” a client

Partnership

500

You shouldn't use MI under these three circumstances

Conflict of interest, coercive power, unbeneficial

Use Your OARS

100

OARS stands for this

Open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, summaries.

200

These are two types of reflections

Simple and complex (feeling, meaning, metaphor)

300

You would use this if a client is getting too off-topic

Transitional summary

400

A reflection should have the intonation going in this direction

Down/neutral

500

Affirmations should be acknowledgments of these three things

Effort, achievement, hardship

It's A Trap!

100

You're engaging in too much small talk with the client

Chat trap

200

The appointment starts to sound like an interrogation

Assessment trap

300

You're not letting the client engage in the case planning and change process.

Expert trap

400

You haven't met with the client yet but you've read the PSI so you know what their problem is

Premature focus trap

500

You're offering unsolicited advice, lecturing the client, and think you know what's best

Righting reflex

Change Talk

100

This acronym is used to recognize change talk

DARN CAT

200

List two skills you can use to elicit change talk

Importance/confidence ruler, querying extremes, looking back/forward, evocative questions, decisional balance, goals and values, elaborating

300

A client is experiencing this when they're on the fence about changing

Ambivalence

400

You're using this skill if you ask a client what would be the worst thing that could happen if they don't change

Querying extremes

500

A client can express this part of DARN CAT without necessarily committing to change

Taking steps

Wildcard

100

You'd use this tool to learn about a client's values

Values cards

200

You'd use this skill to offer advice or a suggestion to a client

EPE Elicit-Provide-Elicit

300

Affirmations will be more meaningful if they have these four qualities

Genuine, wanted, timely, specific

400

These are the four processes of MI

Engaging, focusing, evoking, planning

500

These are the four aspects of acceptance within the MI spirit

Absolute worth, accurate empathy, autonomy support, affirmation