Deborah H. A. Van Horn, Ph. D., LLC - Motivational Interviewing Training

Resources for St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Health System, June 4, 2008

Recommended Reading / Websites / Clinical Tools / Theory and Research / Case Examples

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Recommended Reading:

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior by Rollnick, Miller, & Butler

  • Presents a streamlined model of MI application for health care providers who are not counselors by training. What I love about this book 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 actually done this once or twice!
    See more information at Amazon.com

For a more comprehensive text:

Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change (MI2) by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick

  • Includes extensive (but highly readable) discussion of theoretical underpinnings, empirical evidence
  • Some detailed examples of strategies and techniques with an emphasis on general principles
  • Specialty settings, populations, topics featured in extensive edited section
    Read my detailed review
    See more information at Amazon.com

Websites:

The Motivational Interviewing Page

Stephen Rollnick's practitioner-oriented discussion board

Clinical Tools:

Example of a Change Plan Worksheet

Case Management Society of America guidelines for improving patient adherence to medication therapies (free - PDF online - beware: this is a 1.56 MB, 171-page document): A comprehensive guide to case mangement for improving patient adherence to medication therapies. The section on MI is applicable to other non-counseling, medical settings.

Theoretical and empirical basis:

MI Bibiliography

Findings From Clinical Trials - Updated October 2005 (online slide presentation; or, download the Powerpoint file)

A Meta-Analysis of Motivational Interviewing Outcome Trials - November 2004 (online slide presentation; or, download the Powerpoint file)

Toward a Theory of Motivational Interviewing - November 2004 (online slide presentation; or, download the Powerpoint file)

Case Examples

In this clip, a physician spends just under 9 minutes counseling a patient about his excessive alcohol use.

 

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Updated June 4, 2008