Motivational Interviewing
Abstract: Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a goal-directed, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavioral change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. The operational assumption in MI is that ambivalent attitudes or lack of resolve is the primary obstacle to behavioral change, so that the examination and resolution of ambivalence becomes its key goal. MI has been applied to a wide range of problem behaviors related to alcohol and substance abuse as well as health promotion
Outcomes:1. Alcohol use
2. Negative consequences/problems associated with alcohol use
3. Drinking and driving
4. Alcohol-related injuries
5. Drug use (cocaine and opiates)
6. Retention in treatment
interviewing is one of the more effective tools provided by Los Angeles and Orange County intensive outpatient and residential addiction treatment programs
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