Scaling questions ask patients to rate their priorities, goals, satisfaction, problems, coping strategies, successes, motivation for change, safety, confidence, treatment progress, and hope on a numerical scale from 1–10. These questions have great versatility and can be used to assess the patient’s perception of almost anything.
Kathleen Sciacca was interviewed on video for the Primary Care Clinician web site. The video clips excerpted from this interview include a broad range of motivational interviewing core skills, strategies, spirit, and techniques. Discussion evolves around the application of MI in primary health care settings and includes pertinent physical health examples. The Motivational Interviewing processes and interventions discussed are applicable to many areas of behavior change.
Kathleen Sciacca was video taped for an interview for the Psych Clinician web site. The five clips are a result of this interview with questions edited out and the interview divided in video clips that include specific areas of MI practice. All of the clips are now available on youtube. Each clip covers elements, descriptions and examples of MI interventions, core skills, techniques, communication skills, etc. The discussion is straight forward and focused on mental health interventions but the content is useful for many areas of behavior change.
