MI Spirit
Affirmations
Reflections
Change Talk
Eliciting Change Talk
Wildcard
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What is the MI Spirit?

You and your attitudes towards another person

100

What is an affirmation?

A statement that accentuates the positive.

100

What is a reflection?

Statement of understanding

100

What is change talk?

Statements about change

100

What is the importance-confidence ruler?

Importance (move up), confidence (move down)

100

What is EPE

Elicit-Provide-Elicit

200

Name 3 characteristics of the MI Spirit

Empathy, collaboration, partnership, evocation, acceptance, autonomy

200

Are compliments affirmations?

No. I vs. You.

200

What is the simplest type of reflection?

Content

200

What skills do you use to respond to change talk?

OARS

200

What is looking back/looking forward?

Look back on bad times, imagine good times

200

These are the 3 different types of summaries

Transitional, collecting, linking

300

What is intrinsic motivation?

Comes from within

300

What is the 4:1 ratio?

4 positive statements for every 1 negative statement
300

When do content reflections work well in an interview?

Beginning to build rapport

300

What is commitment language?

Commitment to change (CATS)

300

What are core values?

Values people live by

300

What is a transitional summary?

Bookend, 3 reflections, bookend

400

What is the righting reflex?

Tendency to try to fix things for client

400

Name 3 types of affirmations

Support, achievement, hardship

400

What does it mean to "overshoot" a reflection of feeling?

Overly exaggerated feelings, leading to defensiveness

400

What should a PO do if the client is just telling them what they think the PO wants to hear?

Act as if it is real change talk

400

What does it mean to develop discrepancies?

Reflect back on differences between behavior and values.

400

What are the 4 processes of motivational interviewing?

Engaging, focusing, evoking, planning

500

Name the 4 elements of empathy

Understanding perspective, how they much feel, no judgment, articulate back to them

500

Powerful affirmations should have 4 characteristics. Name 3 of them.

Genuine, timely, specific, wanted

500

What are the 3 types of complex reflections?

Feeling, meaning, metaphor

500

What are the 4 types of change talk a person might make?

DARN. Desire, Ability, Reason, Need

500

What do evocative questions do?

Eliciting the DARN

500

These are the 2 founders of MI

Millner and Rollnick