S W 444 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Motivational Interviewing, The Counselor, Motivation
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Fundamental approach of motivational interviewing: collaboration counseling involves partnership that honors the client"s expertise and perspectives. The counselor provides an atmosphere that is conducive rather than coercive to change: evocation the resources and motivation for change are presumed to reside within the client. Intrinsic motivation for change is enhanced by drawing on the client"s own perceptions, goals, and values: autonomy the counselor affirms the client"s right and capacity for self-direction and facilitates informed choice. The counselor seeks to address these deficits by providing the requisite enlightenment: authority the counselor tells the client what he or she must do. Motivational interviewing is intended to focus on motivational struggles, issues of change for which a person is not clearly ready and willing, or is ambivalent. It is a set of techniques that one can learn quickly in order to deal with annoying motivational problems.
