MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING SELF-ASSES
Think for a moment about the professional interviewing skills self-assessment you completed in Week 1. You may remember that professional interviewing represents a broad skill set that includes many of the motivational interviewing skills you learned about in this course such as using open-ended questions and practicing reflective listening. Which interviewing skills did you feel confident in, and which skills did you think needed further development? Now that you are at the end of this course, reflect on your skills again. Which interviewing skills you have developed as a result of completing the Assignments in this course? Which skills do you still need to work on in the future?Review your Course Announcements for possible information related to this week’s Discussion.
- Read Chapter 28 in the course text. Consider the strategies for evaluating motivational interviewing skills.
- Reflect on your use of motivational interviewing skills throughout the course and particularly during the Weeks 6 and 10 Assignments. Using the strategies discussed in Chapter 28, how would you rate your skills? Which did you do well? What would you do differently in the future when using motivational interviewing? After reviewing your motivational interviewing video from last week’s Assignment, post an assessment of your motivational interviewing skills. In your assessment, explain how you would rate your motivational interviewing skills, what you did well, and what you would do differently in the future. Then, explain how your current assessment compares to your assessment of your professional interviewing skills from the first Discussion in Week 1. Finally, explain how comfortable you feel using motivational interviewing in your current human services environment or one in which you would like to work in the future.How does your current assessment compare to the one you completed in Week 1?
- Based on your assessment of your motivational interviewing skills, consider how comfortable you are using these skills in your current human services organization or one in which you would like to work in the future.
In this Discussion, you will self-assess your motivational interviewing skills and compare your self-assessment to the one you did in Week 1. You will also consider your current comfort level with using motivational interviewing in a human services organization.
Resource
- Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.
- Chapter 18, “Studying Motivational Interviewing” (pp. 298–322)
