Shifting Towards Cultural Proficiency: Motivational Interviewing Tools for the Prevention Toolbox

Motivational interviewing is a counseling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. It is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping individuals to explore and resolve ambivalence. It is more focused, and goal directed. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a set of communication techniques that can spark behavior change in people with chronic conditions. MI is most centrally defined not by technique but by its spirit as a facilitative style for interpersonal relationships.