What
is Motivational Interviewing?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based
clinical method for helping people change. It combines
the client-centred counselling style of Carl Rogers
with directive psychological methods to help clients
increase motivation for change, resolve ambivalence,
strengthen commitment, and carry through with behaviour
change.
Originally developed by William Miller and Steve
Rollnick in 1991 for helping people with addiction
problems, MI is now being applied more widely in
health care, criminal justice, vocational, rehabilitation
and mental health settings.
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