Deborah H. A. Van Horn, Ph. D., LLC - Motivational Interviewing Training
Motivational Interviewing Books
Motivational Interviewing / Addictive behaviors and dual diagnosis/ Medical settings and health behavior / Criminal justice settings / Client-centered counseling style / Harm reduction / Other related topics
Books for a Professional Audience
Motivational Interviewing Texts
A new classic! The entirely re-written, highly readable, second edition of Motivational Interviewing updates readers on the state of the art and science of MI, and provides a practical guide for helping people to make all kinds of behavior changes.
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Addictive Behaviors and Dual Diagnosis
Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover by Carlo C. DiClemente
The latest thinking on the stages of change and more - Transtheoretical model co-developer DiClemente reviews and extends the influential approach to cover the process of acquiring as well as changing addictive behaviors.
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An excellent guide for group leaders - The Stages-of-Change model - based on research showing that people move through distinct stages, each marked by unique change processes - has become increasingly accepted in addictions treatment. This book helps group leaders to target their interventions toward their clients' stage-specific needs with a set of 29 group sessions.
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Concise, comprehensive, and empowering - this is an excellent resource for helping clincians approach the problem of treatment compliance creatively with a wide array of proven strategies at the counselor and treatment-system levels.
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User-friendly guide in the spirit of MI - outlines a collaborative approach to working with clients with substance abuse and severe mental illness. Includes numerous reproducible forms and handouts.
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Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change: Integrating Best Practices for Substance Abuse Professionals by Kathyleen Tomlin and Helen Richardson
A useful adjunct to training, presenting key concepts in MI in simple terms. Provides exercises to help you apply what you have learned in a workshop.
Please note: This book is available from the publisher (Hazelden) with or without a CE test.
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Problem Drinkers: Guided Self-Change Treatment by Mark B. Sobell and Linda C. Sobell
Explains a client-centered approach based on motivational intervention by which clinicians can help people who are not dependent on alcohol, but have experienced some life problems due to their drinking. Traces the steps of implementation, providing case studies. Also includes handouts that can be photocopied and given to clients. (Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.)
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Practical application of the stage model - with specific recommendations for tailoring treatments to clients at all stages of change
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Provided is a wealth of practical advice on interacting with students in a range of contexts, from brief conversations in medical settings to motivational counseling sessions and group interventions... Over a dozen appendices feature reproducible assessment instruments and other indispensable tools, in a large-size format for ease of photocopying and use. (from the publisher)
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Medical Settings and Health Behavior
Asking, Listening, and Informing in a Guiding style - The authors present a streamlined model of MI application for health care providers who are not counselors by training. What I love about this one is that it anticipates and responds to just about every question or concern I have heard when working with folks in medical settings. You can tell the authors have done their homework. This 2007 text provides a more flexible, general model for health behavior consultation than the earlier "Health Behavior Change" book.
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Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners by Stephen Rollnick, Pip Mason, and Chris Butler
Full of practical ideas for clinicians - If you want to become better at helping people change health-related behavior, and are new to a Stages of Change or Motivational Interviewing-based approach, this is a great place to start. If you have some experience with Motivational Interviewing, you will find a simplified model, a fresh take on familiar strategies, and probably some new ideas too. This book provides a stepwise model based on the tasks to complete during health behavior consultation, as compared to the newer "MI in Health Care" book, which presents a more flexible model for communicating in a guiding style.
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Lifestyle Change by Chris Dunn and Stephen Rollnick
"How-to" guide for medical professionals - This slim volume is devoted to general strategies and simple, structured techniques to engage patients in a brief yet constructive conversation about change.
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Motivational Practice: Promoting Healthy Habits and Self-Care of Chronic Diseases by Rick Botelho
Detailed and comprehensive guide to a new way to practice - the author draws on MI, the stages of change model, self-efficacy theory, self-determination theory, relapse prevention, solution-focused therapy, and patient-centered approaches to articulate and teach a model of Motivational Practice.
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Criminal Justice Settings
Motivating Offenders to Change: A Guide to Enhancing Engagement in Therapy by Mary McMurran
Recommended for those working in criminal justice settings - This book came highly recommended by my colleagues in the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers who work in corrections settings. Each chapter
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Client-Centered Counseling Style
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers
Discover (or re-discover) humanistic psychotherapy - Discover the humanistic values at the core of Motivational Interviewing, or remind yourself why you went into counseling in the first place.
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Exercises in Helping Skills: A Training Manual to Accompany the Skilled Helper by Gerard Egan
Learn the basics of the client-centered counseling style. This workbook includes extensive exercises in the OARS (Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, and Summaries) - albeit in the context of a non-MI counseling model. I haven't seen the current (7th) edition yet, but I found the third edition to be an invaluable and reassuring resource back in my graduate school days.
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Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action by Clara E. Hill and Karen M. O'Brien
Learn the basics of the client-centered counseling style. This workbook includes exercises in the OARS (Open questions, Affirmations, Reflective listening, and Summaries) - albeit in the context of a non-MI counseling model.
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Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction: Pragmatic Strategies for Managing High-Risk Behaviors by G. Alan Marlatt
A key resource in harm reduction
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Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions by Patt Denning
Putting harm reduction to work in practice - an introduction to an alternative to the dominant "abstinence only" approach to addictions
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Other Related Topics
Ambivalence in Psychotherapy: Facilitating Readiness to Change by David Engle and Hal Arkowitz
Integrative understanding of resistance - reframes resistance as ambivalence and provides a practical, integrative approach to managing it in psychotherapy.
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Integrative strengths-based approach - incorporates Motivational Interviewing, solution-focused therapy, and cognitive-behavior therapy.
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Motivate your patients to motivate themselves - This book provides an overview of Self-Determination Theory and the research supporting it, and goes on to illustrate how health care practitioners can apply SDT toward motivating patients to engage more fully in treatment. Recommended despite some flaws.
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