Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)

This is a superb book. There are a number of excellent books on motivational interviewing but none that are so clearly directed to helping practitioners develop and practice their motivational interviewing skills. The book presents clear, concise explanations of the core concepts and skills of motivational interviewing along with exercises to help the reader gain experience by putting the skills into practice. Whether you are new to motivational interviewing, an experienced practitioner hoping to enhance your motivational interviewing skills, or a trainer involved in teaching others how to use this approach to behavior change, this book will be a valuable resource. Highly recommended. Steve Schack, MSW, CDP Member, Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers Evergreen Treatment Services Seattle, WA, USA

Knowing what MI is and being able to use it are 2 different animals. This manual gives practice guidelines, examples of the OARS tools used and how to assist a person to break out of their ambivalence. When working with people who live in denial of their need for change, MI has opened doors to success. This manual supplied me with practice exercises to teach nurses how to break the code for resistance held by people who can enhance their health by realizing for themselves that change is not hard and could save their lives.

This book is a must for anyone working in any kind of counseling career. Motivational interviewing can really help clarify what is being said.

This book assisted my understanding with increasing my motivational interviewing skills on a one to one presentation. When working with subordinate it is very important as a leader to utilize this approach.

I was tasked to teach MI skills to my co-workers. This book gave me a place to start and made my task easier.

I used several of the exercises in this book with my supervisee, a clinical psychology graduate student, and I noticed a definite increase in her use of the skills after that assignment. She recently reported reflecting back on the homework assigned in this book to help her get out of a tough spot with a client, which makes me think that it was useful from her perspective as well.

This book arrived on time and in the condition stated. I found this book to be very helpful in increasing my skill in motivational interviewing. The exercises that the author has at the end of each chapter really challenges you to further explore the topics discussed. I would recommend this book for counselors looking to increase their knowledge in motivational interviewing.

I bought both this and the text for a course at Morehead State University (PSY). I found the workbook to be MUCH more useful than the text. I have looked back through this one and have loaned it out, but not the text. The skills in this workbook can be used for more than just counseling applications. Good skill addition for your resume.

This book was recommended to me by a psychiatrist who teaches motivational interviewing. I have read many books on this subject and give this one a top rating for learning practical skills.

This book is an excellent resource for trainers, coaches and practitioners of MI. It has many practical and useful examples for the user. An excellent accompaniment to Miller and Rollnicks volumes of MI. I would recommend this to all who have an interest in MI and its application.

Having just completed my 2 day training and still feeling a little out of my depth, this book was easy to follow and a great book to help build foundational skills

Extremely practical as well as useful To me it is like a workshop manual Appears to have the right mixture of How to do it As well as Why I am doing it

Superb book, easy to read with a lot of useful exercises. It took me few days to go throug it as once I started I could not stop reading.