Electronic Resource
Palo Alto, Calif.
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Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (2005)
1 (2005), S. 91-111
ISSN:
1548-5943
Source:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered, directive therapeutic style to enhance readiness for change by helping clients explore and resolve ambivalence. An evolution of Rogers's person-centered counseling approach, MI elicits the client's own motivations for change. The rapidly growing evidence base for MI is summarized in a new meta-analysis of 72 clinical trials spanning a range of target problems. The average short-term between-group effect size of MI was 0.77, decreasing to 0.30 at follow-ups to one year. Observed effect sizes of MI were larger with ethnic minority populations, and when the practice of MI was not manual-guided. The highly variable effectiveness of MI across providers, populations, target problems, and settings suggests a need to understand and specify how MI exerts its effects. Progress toward a theory of MI is described, as is research on how clinicians develop proficiency in this method.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.1.102803.143833
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