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Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client-centered counseling approach designed to elicit and strengthen intrinsic motivation for behavioral change. Developed by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick in 1991, MI has been extensively applied to substance use disorders, health behavior change, mental health treatment engagement, and numerous other areas where ambivalence about change is a primary obstacle.

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Motivational Interviewing Technique
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / clinical-psychology
  • Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2002). Motivational interviewing: Preparing people for change (2nd ed.). Guilford Press. · ISBN 9781572305632
  • Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2009). Ten things that motivational interviewing is not. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 37(2), 129–140. · DOI 10.1017/S1352465809005128
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