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Rolling with Resistance (Motivational Interviewing)
From client resistance to an external desire to connection.
From authoritative expert to inspiring confidence. . From causes to capacities.
From counterforce to counterbalance.
strengthening commitment
Public commitment, social support, and self-monitoring
Accurate empathy
occurs when a counselor is able to experience the client's point of view in terms of
feelings and cognitions.
Activation Language
A form of client mobilizing change talk that expresses disposition toward action, but falls
short of commitment language; typical words include ready, willing, considering
Agreement with a Twist
A reflection, affirmation, or accord followed by a reframe
Amplified Reflection
A technique that exaggerates what a client has said with the hope that the client will
present the other side of ambivalence
Bouquet
A particular kind of summary that collects and emphasizes the client's change talk.
Change Ruler
, A rating scale, usually 0-10, used to assess a client's motivation for a particular change;
see Confidence Ruler and Importance Ruler
Collecting Summary
A special form of reflection that pulls together a series of interrelated items that the
person has offered
Continuing the Paragraph
a method of reflective listening in which the counselor offers what might be the next (as
yet unspoken) sentence in the client's paragraph
DARN
An acronym for four subtypes of client preparatory change talk: Desire, Ability, Reason,
and
Need.
Decisional Balance
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.
Depth of Reflection
The extent to which a reflection contains more than the literal content of what a person
has already said. See also Complex Reflection.
Double-Sided Reflection
An interviewer reflection that includes both client sustain talk and change talk, usually
with the conjunction "and."
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