The confrontational conversational style of Socrates can put people on the defensive and leave them feeling resentful.

She has just experienced the subtle power of a method that’s increasingly popular in medicine: It's called motivational interviewing, often referred to just by its initials, MI. "The big shift ...

Rosengren, D.B. (2009). Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook. The Guilford Press, NY. The book serves as an adjunct to the second edition of Miller and Rollnick's ...

Motivational interviewing is often used to address addiction and the management of physical health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and asthma. This intervention helps people become ...

But I recently read an article by Juan Ortega directed toward fitness coaches titled "Solving Your Clients' Problems with Motivational Interviewing," and it changed how I approach my employees.

Motivational interviewing has been shown to be effective in counseling clients toward behavior change. The major principles of motivational interviewing will be described and motivational ...

It also needs some motivational interviewing (MI). A common motivational interviewing example involves counseling around stopping smoking. I might ask a patient, “How important is it to you to ...

The University at Buffalo Motivational Interviewing Center (UBMIC) has only been in operation for two years, but it is already making an impact on the local, state and national levels. The UBMIC ...

A research team has designed and implemented a group motivational interviewing system using multiple chatbots to support ...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based treatment that addresses ambivalence to change. MI is a conversational approach designed to help people with the following: Ambivalence is a natural ...