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A Toolkit of Motivational Skills:

Encouraging and Supporting Change in Individuals
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John Wiley & Sons, 2008 - Self-Help - 306 pages
How do you motivate someone to change a pattern of behaviour? This is an issue faced daily by professionals working in healthcare and criminal justice systems. Motivational interviewing is a style of communication developed for working with substance abuse, but found to be effective for work with a variety of people who are struggling with the idea of behaviour change. This workbook is a complete guide to the motivational approach for any professional who needs to help others to change.
  

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Contents

1 What is a Motivational Approach?
2
2 How Effective is the Motivational Approach?
22
3 How to Use the Toolkit to Meet Individual Requirements
30
4 Establishing Rapport and Making Contracts
46
5 Exploring Current Motivation
64
6 The Cycle of Change
72
7 Listening Skills
104
8 Summarising and Reflective Listening
120
11 Exploring Ambivalence
174
12 Developing the Desire to Change
188
13 Affirmation and Confidence to Change
208
14 Motivational Action Planning
228
15 Supporting Change
244
16 Putting it All Together Cultivating your Skills
258
References
288
Index of Worksheets
292

9 Asking Open Questions
136
10 Working with Resistance
150

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About the author (2008)

Catherine Fuller is a Research Fellow on the Bentham Project, UCL, and Editor of the Correspondence. Philip Schofield is Director and General Editor of the Bentham Project and Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought, Faculty of Laws, UCL, London.

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