The stage where a person might say "What problem? I don't have a problem!"
What is the pre-contemplation stage?
100
The extent to which an interviewer communicates accurate understanding of the client’s perspectives and experience; most commonly manifested as reflection.
What is empathy?
100
The clinical error of asking too many questions, leaving the client in the passive role of answering them.
What is the Question-Answer Trap?
100
A question that offers the client broad latitude and choice in how to respond.
What is an Open Question?
100
The two founders of MI.
Who are Steve Rollnick and William Miller?
200
The stage where the client states reasons to change, as well as reasons not to change, and is said to be "ambivalent" about change.
What is the contemplation stage of change?
200
One of four central components of the underlying spirit of MI by which the interviewer functions as a partner or companion, working alongside the client.
What is collaboration?
200
The clinical error of assuming and communicating that the counselor has the best answers to the client’s problems.
What is the Expert Trap?
200
A choice-focused technique that can be used when counseling with neutrality, devoting equal exploration to the pros and cons of change or of a specific plan.
What is the Decisional Balance strategy?
200
This off-shoot of MI generally includes providing feedback, and is sometimes referred to as "MI Plus."
What is Motivational Enhancement Therapy?
300
The stage where a client may "slip up" and engage in the targeted problem behavior.
What is the relapse stage of change?
300
One of four aspects of acceptance as a component of MI spirit, by which the interviewer accepts and confirms the client’s irrevocable right to self-determination and choice.
What is autonomy support?
300
The clinical error of focusing before engaging, trying to direct before you have established a working collaboration and negotiated common goals.
What is the Premature Focus Trap?
300
A rating scale, usually 0–10, used to assess a client’s motivation for a particular change
What is a Readiness Ruler?
300
A therapeutic approach introduced by psychologist Carl Rogers in which people explore their own experience within a supportive, empathic, and accepting relationship
What is client-centered therapy?
400
A model developed by Prochaska and DiClemente in 1977 that maintains characteristics similar to MI.
What is the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change?
400
Double-sided reflection, shifting focus, agreement with a twist, and siding with the negative.
What are ways to roll with resistance?
400
The clinical error of engaging in unproductive struggles to persuade clients to accept a label or diagnosis.
What is the Labeling Trap?
400
A technique in which a person gives priority rankings to various values, for example, by sorting cards into piles ranging from “not at all important” to “most important.”
What is Value Card Sorting?
400
The problem that MI was first applied to.
What is problem-drinking?
500
A concept that MI views as normal when one is thinking about change, and something that allows one to move from contemplation to preparation once resolved.
What is ambivalence?
500
The underlying set of mind and heart within which MI is practiced, including partnership, acceptance, compassion, and evocation
What is the spirit of MI?
500
The clinical error of warning, disagreeing, or arguing with the client that results in the client stating that there is no problem.
What is the Confrontation/Denial Trap?
500
A specific scheme to implement a change goal generally used during the Preparation Stage of Change.
What is a Change Plan?
500
The governmental agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that puts out a free manual entitled "Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment."
What is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)?