Motivational Interviewing. Change: Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, and Commitment
This blog includes videos, podcasts and other resources to learn more about motivational interviewing and other counselling approaches.
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Transference vs. Countertransference: What’s the big deal?
You may be feeling overwhelmed by the number of new terms, theories, and practices you are learning. With all of the clinical information, you are consuming it can be easy to gloss over the concepts of transference and countertransference...
OARS Model: Essential Communication Skills
OARS is a skills-based, client-centered model of interactive techniques. These skills include verbal and non-verbal responses and behaviors that need to be culturally sensitive and appropriate. This model integrates the five principles of...
Communication Techniques - OARS
OARS is a skill-based model of interactions adapted from a client-centered approach used in Motivational Interviewing. These skill-based techniques include verbal and non-verbal responses and behaviors. Both verbal and non-verbal techniques...
Motivational Interviewing: Open Questions, Affirmation, Reflective Listening, and Summary Reflections (OARS)
Motivational Interviewing provides a foundation for assisting individuals with developing the rationale for beginning change in their lives. This resources provides basic information about the principles on communicating using motivational...
Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Therapy ‘Toolbox’ Helps Rescue Poorly Recovering Patients at London Maintenance Clinic
Instead of a set programme, a clinic in London tried offering patients prescribed methadone or buprenorphine but still using heroin or cocaine a selection from a suite of well-supported psychological interventions tailored to the patient...
ICAAD Paris 2019
This year, our 4th iCAAD Paris day-conference will address the central theme of addiction and identity.
An opening Keynote and debate will be followed with 9 Master Classes covering important and relevant topics when treating addictive disorders beyond the addiction.
Highlights include
Motivational Interviewing Skills Training
The training content will include key concepts of MI, developing competence in the pathway to change, developing MI skills and practice an integration plan.
Effectiveness Bank Additions: Therapy Relationships that Work 2: Elements of the Alliance
Second of four bulletins recapping 16 reviews for the American Psychological Association featuring expert advice and amalgamations of research findings on different aspects of the client-therapist relationship. With the overview of the...
Effectiveness Bank Analysis: Fundamental Rule for Therapists: Know and Be Who You Are
Message from an amalgamation of research findings for the American Psychological Association is that conveying genuineness and authenticity - at least during therapy, being and giving of yourself as an integrated character - is one way...
