Motivational Interviewing in Corrections: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing MI in Corrections.

摘要

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a style of communicating that helps people explore and resolve ambivalence about changing specific, maladaptive behaviors. Created by two preeminent social scientists, William Miller and Stephen Rollnick, this style is both directive guided by the agent* toward specific behavior changeand client centeredattentive to the clients needs, wishes, expertise about himself/ herself, and beliefs about the change process. Extensive research shows that applications of MI can be effective in assisting various client populations with challenging problems related to alcohol, methamphetamines, cocaine, opioids, sex offending, institutional conduct, and treatment compliance.18.