Description
Transform your clinical practice with Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Edition. Authored by the pioneers of the approach, William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, this bestselling foundational text fundamentally restructured how professionals understand and facilitate behavior change. It is an essential resource for practitioners in mental health, addiction treatment, medicine, and social work who want to help clients resolve ambivalence and build intrinsic motivation.
This landmark 3rd Edition marked a significant evolution in MI by moving away from earlier phase-based models and formally introducing the four overlapping processes that now define the practice: Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning. The authors provide a clear, step-by-step framework for navigating these processes, supported by numerous clinical transcripts and actionable guidelines. This edition emphasizes the underlying “spirit” of MI—partnership, acceptance, compassion, and evocation—while offering concrete strategies for recognizing “change talk” and responding to “sustain talk” or discord without evoking resistance.
Key Features:
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The Four Processes: Introduces and details the modern MI framework of Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning.
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Core Skills: Provides in-depth guidance on utilizing OARS (Open questions, Affirming, Reflecting, Summarizing) to build rapport and guide conversations.
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Eliciting Change Talk: Offers specific techniques for helping clients articulate their own reasons and arguments for positive change.
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Clinical Transcripts: Features extensive real-world dialogue examples to demonstrate what MI looks and sounds like in practice.
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Broad Application: Addresses how to integrate MI into various healthcare and therapeutic settings beyond its origins in addiction counseling.
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