A Toolkit of Motivational Skills: Encouraging and Supporting Change in Individuals

How do you motivate someone to change a pattern of behaviour? This is an issue faced daily by professionals working in healthcare and criminal justice systems. Motivational interviewing is a style of communication developed for working with substance abuse, but found to be effective for work with a variety of people who are struggling with the idea of behaviour change. This workbook is a complete guide to the motivational approach for any professional who needs to help others to change.

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Acknowledgements.
About the authors.
1. What is a motivational approach?
2. How effective is the motivational approach?
3. Establishing Rapport and making contracts.
4. How to use the Toolkit to meet individual requirements.
5. Exploring current motivation.
6. The Cycle of Change.
7. Listening skills.
8. Summarising and Reflective Listening.
9. Asking Open Questions.
10. Working with Resistance.
11. Exploring ambivalence.
12. Developing the desire to change.
13 Affirmation and Confidence to Change.
14. Motivational Action Planning.
15. Supporting Change.
16. Putting it altogether.
References.
Index of worksheets.
Subject index.