4 Central components of MI
Acceptance, compassion, evocation, partnership
Activation language
mobilizing change talk towards action, falls short
... [Show More] of commitment language. ie. Ready, willing, considering
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Acceptance
Coach communicates self-worth, accurate empathy, affirmation, and autonomy support.
Agenda Mapping
short focusing metaconversation where you step back and client chooses a direction from several options.
Agreement with a twist
A reflection, affirmation, or accord followed by a reframe
Ambivalence
Simultaneous presence of competing motivations for and against change.
Amplified Reflection
Coach reflects with greater intensity than client expressed. A form of response to sustain talk or discord.
Assessment Trap
Error of beginning consultation with expert info. gathering at cost of not listening to client's concerns.
Autonomy Support
1 of 4 aspects of acceptance as a component of MI. Interviewer accepts and confirms client's irrevocable right to self-determination and choice.
Blaming Trap
The clinical error of focusing on blame or fault-finding rather than change
CAT
Acronym for 3 subtypes of client mobilizing change talk: Commitment, Activation, Taking Steps
Change Talk
Any client speech that favors movement toward a particular change goal.
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Chat trap
the clinical error of engaging in excessive small talk and informal chat that does not further the processes of engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning.
Coming Alongside
A response to persistent sustain talk or discord in which the interviewer accepts and reflects the client's theme.
Commitment Language
Client mobilizing change talk that reflects intention or disposition to carry out change. Verbs: Will, do, going to.
Compassion
One of the 4 central components of MI. Coach acts benevolently giving priority to client needs and welfare.
Complex Reflection
An interviewer reflection that adds additional or different meaning beyond what the client has just said; a guess as to what the client may have meant.
Confidence Talk
Change talk that particularly bespeaks ability to change.
Continuing the paragraph
A method of reflective listening in which the counselor offers what might be the next (as yet unspoken) sentence in the client's paragraph. [Show Less]