Abstract
Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based and patient-centered approach to encouraging changes to habits, most typically targeting health-risk behaviors. MI eschews education, professional advice, and persuasion in favor of conversational strategies designed to elicit the patient’s own concerns, intentions, and reasons for change. This chapter provides a brief history of MI, style and spirit of MI, skills and strategies of MI, and the evidence-base for MI with pediatric medical conditions. Additionally, issues regarding training and integration of MI into treatment guidelines will be discussed.
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This is a confabulated clinical example that is loosely based upon an aggregate of provider–patient interactions. All case examples in this chapter are fictitious and intended to illustrate a sampling of MI techniques.
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Jeter, K., Gillaspy, S., Leffingwell, T.R. (2019). Motivational Interviewing. In: Friedberg, R.D., Paternostro, J.K. (eds) Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Medical Conditions. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21683-2_6
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