Exam 11: Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Substance Abuse and Dependence

Describe strategies a clinician can utilize to help clients enhance their confidence in regards to changing their behavior.

_________ began as an approach to reduce resistance and increase intrinsic motivation to change substance abuse behavior.

What are the four components of the MI spirit?

Which of the following terms refers to feeling two ways about changing a habit or behavior?

Motivational interviewing is based on the work of:

__________ motivation is related to a client's sense of autonomy.

What are the strengths of the MI approach?

Persuasion, lecturing, not listening, and offering unsolicited advice are examples of:

What are the five principles of MI? Provide a brief description of each.

_____________ is the component of the MI spirit that emphasizes actively promoting the client's welfare.

It is common for clients to not offer any change talk during the MI process.

John values his family and providing for them, but continues to smoke marijuana excessively. Highlighting this contradiction for the client is an example of:

Motivational interviewing is only used in conjunction with other counseling approaches.

What are the three main goals of MI? Briefly describe each of them.

Individual behavior change that is motivated through a sense of autonomy leads to better goal attainment.

How many principles of MI are there?

In regards to the processes of MI, which of the following describes the evoking process?

Clients who believe it is not important to change but confident that they could if they wanted to are considered to be at the pre-contemplative stage of change.

The four processes of MI provide an understanding of what the MI approach look like:

Arguing with a client is never a good idea.