MI Principles
Encouraging optimism and knowing your client has all they need to succeed within.
What is supporting Self-Efficacy?
Keeping things exciting for the client and offering different activities to encourage new ways of thinking and creating solutions.
What is to engage?
Integrity, honesty, trust and more.
What are values?
Client has completed their work and achieved their goals in their initial focus from the wheel of wellness and they've noticed it's impacted other areas.
What is to re-assess?
Individual has no desire to change or is unaware that their is even anything wrong. No plans to change.
What is pre-contemplation?
Holding space with compassion and active listening.
What is expressing empathy?
Getting to a SMART goal and establishing accountability.
What is a plan?
A client is at a 6 for their overall well-being, not a 3 because they practice a healthy lifestyle and confident they can take steps to achieve their goal at a 9.
What is scaling?
What is to re-focus?
Client is taking steps forward towards achieving their goals and has been doing so for the last 6 months.
Not causing direct confrontation or creating discord.
What is avoiding argument?
This includes open ended inquiries and often the elicit-provide-elicit technique.
What is to evoke?
What is open ended questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries?
Client is finding that some actions have worked well while others have required some deep reflection to determine if some actions are worthwhile.
What is contemplation?
Identifying the clients goals and values in relation to their current behavior.
What is discrepancy?
Being fully present and setting a clear intention and pathway for the session requires this.
Going off track in a session, I raise my hand or offer a small sound to bring the session back into focus.
What is a polite interruption?
Client is bored and not finding much excitement in their action steps requiring some new approaches to the plan.
What is to re-engage?
Client is excited and nervous because their plan is supposed to begin within this next month and they want to make sure they have a solid plan of action.
What is preparation?
Do not oppose, rather seek to understand.
What is roll with resistance?
BONUS! Seeking a clients awareness, educating with information and then seeking a clients thoughts on what was shared.
Providing a follow up text message, sending a picture as proof and an expectation to show up for each scheduled session.
What is accountability?
Bonus! Client has maintained progress for overall health and well-being for the last 3 years and has reached the final stage of change.
What is termination?
Client is self-sustaining for the last year and is focused on the value that their lifestyle changes has had on their quality of life.
What is maintenance?