Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook

Many tens of thousands of mental health and health care professionals have used this essential book--now significantly revised with 70% new content reflecting important advances in the field--to develop and sharpen their skills in motivational interviewing (MI). Clear explanations of core MI concepts are accompanied by carefully crafted sample dialogues, exercises, and practice opportunities. Readers build proficiency for moving through the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--using open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries (OARS), plus information exchange. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume includes more than 80 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

New to This Edition
*Fully revised and restructured around the new four-process model of MI.
*Chapters on exploring values and goals and "finding the horizon."
*Additional exercises, now with downloadable worksheets.
*Teaches how to tailor OARS skills for each MI process.
*Integrates key ideas from positive psychology.

Winner (First Place)--American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award, Adult Primary Care Category

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.

Author: David B. Rosengren
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 09/19/2017
Pages: 513
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 10.40h x 8.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781462532063
ISBN10: 1462532063
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
- Medical | Psychiatry | General
- Social Science | Social Work

About the Author
David B. Rosengren, PhD, is President and CEO of the Prevention Research Institute, a private nonprofit organization in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a clinical psychologist with a broad background in treatment, research, training, and administration. He has served as a research scientist and consultant at the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute and as an MI consultant and trainer. Dr. Rosengren helped to establish the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, an international association representing more than a thousand MI trainers spread across 35 countries and six continents. His research interests include mechanisms of change for clients and practitioners, training methods, and implementation and dissemination science. He has authored journal articles and book chapters on addictions, MI, training, and the change process.