Motivation Treatment

Sometimes patients are ambivalent about wanting change behaviors and may find it even more difficult to ask others, including a professional, for help. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a brief psychosocial intervention that can be useful for increasing patients' motivation.² MI is designed to highlight discrepancies between a person's current values and goals and how he or she is actually living.¹More

MI is a successful technique that was initially developed to enhance motivation to reduce problematic drinking that has been successfully applied to a number of other behavioral health problems.¹

Getting Motivated to Change Behavior

¹Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (1991). Motivational interviewing: Preparing people for change. New York: Guilford Press.

²Levensky, E. R. (2003). Motivational interviewing.In W. O'Donohue, J. E. Fisher, & S. C. Hayes (Eds.).Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Applying Empirically Supported Techniques in Your Practice, pp. 252-260. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley & Sons, Inc.