How does motivational interviewing work? What client talk reveals

TitleHow does motivational interviewing work? What client talk reveals
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsAmrhein, PC
JournalJournal of Cognitive Psychotherapy
Volume18
Pagination323-336
PublisherSpringer Publishing
Place PublishedUS
Publication Languageeng
ISBN Number0889-8391
Accession Number2005-04354-004
Keywordsbehavior change, behavioral outcome, client speech acts, Commitment, interviewing, Motivation, motivational interviewing, Psycholinguistics, psychotherapeutic process, Psychotherapeutic Processes, Psychotherapeutic Techniques, Speech Characteristics, verbal commitments
Abstract

A psycholinguistic account of motivational interviewing (MI) is proposed. Critical to this view is the assumption that therapists and clients are natural language users engaged in a constructive conversation that reveals and augments relevant information about the status of future change in a client's substance abuse. The role of client speech acts--most notably, verbal commitments--during MI is highlighted. How commitments can be signaled in client speech or gestures is discussed. How these commitment signals can inform therapeutic process and subsequent behavioral outcome is then put forth. Using natural language as a measure, a MI process model is presented that not only posits a mediational role for client commitment in relating underlying factors of desire, ability (self-efficacy), need, and reasons to behavior, but also a pivotal role as a need-satisfying enabler of a social-cognitive mechanism for personal change. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)

URL10.1891/jcop.18.4.323.64001http://libproxy.unm.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=psyh&AN=2005-04354-004&site=ehost-live&scope=siteamrheinp@mail.montclair.edu
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