Communication Skills
It spells OARS if you combine the first letters of these words.
What are Open-Ended Questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summaries?
Eliciting the person's own motivation for a particular change.
What is evoking?
Interviewer communicates absolute worth, accurate empathy, affirmation, and autonomy support.
What is acceptance?
Any client speech that favors movement towards change.
What is change talk?
The client's expression of their own motivation to change.
What is change talk?
Seeking and acknowledging a person 's strengths and efforts.
What is an affirmation?
Establishing a mutually trusting and respectful helping relationship.
What is engaging?
Interviewer acts benevolently to promote the client's welfare, giving priority to the client's needs.
What is compassion?
It spells CATs when you combine the first letters of each 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?
The style of question most used in Motivational Interviewing.
What is an open-ended question?
Clarifying a particular goal or direction for change.
What is focusing?
Interviewer elicits the client's own perspectives and motivation.
What is evocation?
"I want to lose some weight"
"I hope to quit drinking by next year"
Are example of this kind of preparatory change talk:
What is Desire?
An interviewer reflection that includes both client sustain talk and change talk, usually using the conjunction “and.”
What is a double-sided reflection?
A reflection that draws together from two or more prior client statements.
What is a summary?
Involves developing a specific change plan that the client is willing to implement.
What is planning?
Interviewer functions as a partner or companion, collaborating with the client's own expertise.
What is partnership?
What is one way to elicit Change Talk?
What is (any of the following):
Goals/Values Exploration, Querying Extremes, Looking Back/Looking Forward, and asking Evocative Questions?
Interpersonal behavior that reflects dissonance in the working relationship.
What is discord?
An interviewer statement intended to mirror meaning (explicit or implicit) of preceding client speech.
What is a reflection?
"Is is ok if we go back to talking about your smoking?" Is an example of:
What is focusing?
"Where would you like this conversation to go from here?"
"I'm interested in knowing what you think of the situation"
Are examples of:
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?
An information exchange process that begins and ends with exploring the client’s own experience to frame whatever information is being provided to the client.
Elicit-Provide-Elicit