Evoking Change Talk From the Motivational Interviewing Role Play Exercise
In this week’s Discussion, you had an opportunity to practice evoking change talk from the service user in the case study you were assigned in Week 2. For this Assignment, you will have another opportunity to practice evoking change talk. This time, you will consider which strategies you would use to evoke change talk from the “service user” in the Week 6 role play exercise you recorded.
Resources
- Walden University, LLC. (2020). Hart CityLinks to an external site. [Interactive media]. Walden
- Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.
- D'Amico, E. J., Houck, J. M., Tucker, J. S., Ewing, B. A., & Pedersen, E. R. (2017). Group motivational interviewing for homeless young adults: Associations of change talk with substance use and sexual risk behavior.Links to an external site. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 31(6), 688–698. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000288Links to an external site.
- Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.
- Chapter 13, “Planting Seeds" (pp. 214–228)
- Document: Ten Strategies for Evoking Change Talk Download Ten Strategies for Evoking Change Talk (PDF) Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). (n.d.). Ten strategies for evoking change talk. Retrieved from http://www.motivationalinterviewing.org/sites/default/files/Ten%20Strategies%20for%20Evoking%20Change%20Talk%20Sue%20EckMaahs.pdf
- Chapter 12, “Supporting Persistence” (pp. 203–212) University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.com
- Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.
- Chapter 11, “Offering Information and Advice" (pp. 191–202)
- Chapter 14, “Responding to Sustain Talk and Discord” (pp. 229–252)
- Chapter 15, “Practicing Well” (pp. 253–264)
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. WEEKLY RESOURCES
By Day 7
Submit a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:
- Using the Learning Resources from this week, as well as the feedback provided by your classmate in the Week 6 Assignment, describe three strategies you would use to evoke change talk with the “service user” in the Week 6 video you recorded. Explain why you think each would be effective.
- Provide examples of specific statements you would use for each strategy.
Motivational Interviewing
Ten Strategies for Evoking Change Talk
1. Ask Evocative Questions: Ask open question, the answer to which is change talk.
2. Explore Decisional Balance: Ask first for the good things about status quo, then ask for the not-so-good things.
3. Ask for Elaboration: When a change talk theme emerges, ask for more details. In what
ways? Tell me more…? What does that look like?
4. Ask for Examples: When a change talk theme emerges, ask for specific examples. When was the last time that happened? Give me an example. What else?
5. Look Back: Ask about a time before the current concern emerged. How were things
better, different?
6. Look Forward: Ask what may happen if things continue as they are (status quo). Try the miracle question: If you were 100% successful in making the changes you want, what would be different? How would you like your life to be five years from now?
7. Query Extremes: What are the worst things that might happen if you don’t make this
change? What are the best things that might happen if you do make this change?
8. Use Change Rulers: Ask, “On a scale from zero to ten, how important is it to you to [target change] – where zero is not at all important, and ten is extremely important? Follow up: And why are you at ___and not _____ [lower number than they stated]? What might happen that could move you from ___ to [higher number]? Instead of “how important” (need), you could also ask how much you want (desire), or how confident you are that you could (ability), or how committed are you to (commitment). Asking “how ready are you?” tends to be confusing because it combines competing components of desire, ability, reasons and need.
9. Explore Goals and Values: Ask what the person’s guiding values are. What do they
want in life? Using a values card sort can be helpful here. If there is a “problem” behavior, ask how that behavior fits in with the person’s goals or values. Does it help realize a goal or value, interfere with it, or is it irrelevant?
10. Come Alongside: Explicitly side with the negative (status quo) side of ambivalence.
Perhaps _______is so important to you that you won’t give it up, no matter what the cost.