Abstract
Motivational interviewing is a directive, client centered counseling style that aims to help client explore and resolve their ambivalence about behavior change. Motivational interviewing plays pivotal role in improvement of health condition although primarily it was developed for fighting with addiction problem but now it shows its contribution in clinical setting to promote weight reduction, dietary modification, exercise thus having a potential profound impact on heart disease, hypertension diabetes mellitus prompting to use safe sex practices and protecting from the risk of HIV and other STD diseases. Motivational interviewing stresses on way of communication from traditional advice giving to reflective listening. Principles of motivational interviewing are Express empathy, Avoid arguments, Develop discrepancies, Roll with resistance and Support Self efficacy. As, it has been seen that motivation plays key role in any person’s life and many diseases flourishes due to our lack of motivation to change behavior and our life style that used to exacerbate morbidity. Motivational interviewing technique used to act as a catalyst to accelerate our activities through behavior change and protecting us from health related problems in future.
Highlights
Motivational interviewing is a directive, client centered counseling style that aims to help client explore and resolve their ambivalence about behavior change
There has been considerable recent interest on the part of public health, health psychology, and medical professionals in adapting Motivational interviewing (MI) to address other health behaviors and conditions, such as smoking, diet, physical activity, screening, sexual behavior, diabetes control, and medical adherence (Emmons & Rollnick, 2001; Resnicow, DiIorio, et al, 2002), primarily it was developed for manages relevance in prevention and management of substance use and various other disorder
Motivational interviewing is a key to unlock the door of a treasure in the form of human potential of which individual is not acquainted and is buried inside the crust due to ambivalence nature to change behavior
Summary
Motivational interviewing is a directive, client centered counseling style that aims to help client explore and resolve their ambivalence about behavior change. This is where a breed of interventional techniques come in and in this branch of patient centered techniques is the highly effective, behavior modifying approach known as motivational interviewing.
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