The confrontational conversational style of Socrates can put people on the defensive and leave them feeling resentful.

But I recently read an article by Juan Ortega directed toward fitness coaches titled "Solving Your Clients' Problems with Motivational Interviewing," and it changed how I approach my employees.

Rosengren, D.B. (2009). Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook. The Guilford Press, NY. The book serves as an adjunct to the second edition of Miller and Rollnick's ...

It also needs some motivational interviewing (MI). A common motivational interviewing example involves counseling around stopping smoking. I might ask a patient, “How important is it to you to ...

Motivational interviewing evolved from Carl Roger’s person-centered, or client-centered, approach to counseling and therapy, as a method to help people commit to the difficult process of change.

Motivational interviewing is a valuable counseling style designed to help patients gain the impetus to make positive health behavior changes. The approach uses open-ended questions, discussion of ...

Motivational interviewing has been shown to be effective in counseling clients toward behavior change. The major principles of motivational interviewing will be described and motivational ...

An overview of motivational interviewing is provided in this column. Motivational interviewing makes sense in terms of a stages-of-change model, so this paradigm is reviewed first.

The University at Buffalo Motivational Interviewing Center (UBMIC) has only been in operation for two years, but it is already making an impact on the local, state and national levels. The UBMIC ...

The study publishes June 11, 2019, in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Motivational interviewing is used to address behavioral aspects of managing chronic health conditions such as diabetes, ...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based treatment that addresses ambivalence to change. MI is a conversational approach designed to help people with the following: Ambivalence is a natural ...