Motivational interviewing

The following basic attitude applies to motivational interviewing:

• The well-being of the other person comes first (compassion).
• You work together based on equality.
• You accept clients own freedom of choice and recognize and strengthen autonomy.
• You invite someone to look for internal motivations.

The following conversation techniques (OARS)  are used, to support motivational interviewing:

• Open questions are questions to which you cannot in principle answer yes/no. This encourages the client to continue talking.
• Affirmation  emphasizes something the client is doing well. It makes the client aware of what they can do.
• Reflective listening involves naming a feeling.
• Summarizing involves briefly repeating the content of what the client says. As a care provider, you check whether you have understood everything correctly and the client feels understood.

In solution-oriented discussions, the client rates the current situation, imagines the ideal situation and looks at solutions that the client himself proposes.

 

References:

Miller W.R. & Rollnick S. (2017) Motiverende gespreksvoering 3e editie Ekklesia . Deel 3 Focussen: de strategische richting.

Sassen B. (2014) Gezondheidszorg en zelfmanagement.

Gingerich, W. J., & Peterson, L. T. (2013). Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: a systematic qualitative review of controlled outcome studies. Research on Social Work Practice, 23(3), 266–283.)