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Why motivational interviewing training might be useful
Clients often have reasons to do a health promoting behavior (stopping smoking, decreasing substance use, taking prescribed medication, exercising, making appointments for care, following a diet). They also have reasons to NOT do this same behavior. Because of this ambivalence, clients will often resist direct advice to do the healthy behavior. A health care provider who has tools in addition to giving information or advice will likely see more client improvement.
Motivational interviewing can be such a tool. It uses the client's ambivalence and reactance to develop and solicit reasons to change from the client's perspective. This counseling style has been compared to dancing (versus wrestling). Not only does the client feel more respected, he or she often creates more progress, and the health care provider is freed from shouldering the burden of change. This respects the reality of the answer to, "Who has to have the motivation to do the health promoting behavior, the health care provider or the client?"
You have clients. You know why the clients would do well to follow your advice. You can enhance your motivational interviewing skills to help your clients find their reasons to follow your advice.
