Motivational Interviewing and Counseling Skills Flashcards
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Which of the following is an example of an 'affirmation' in Motivational Interviewing?
Answer: 'It sounds like you have made some difficult decisions to protect your health.'
Affirmations acknowledge and recognize the client's strengths, efforts, and positive qualities to build self-efficacy and reinforce the therapeutic alliance.
According to the Transtheoretical Model, a client who has been abstinent for six months and is working to prevent relapse is in which stage?
Answer: Maintenance
The Maintenance stage begins after six months of sustained change and focuses on preventing relapse and consolidating the gains made during the Action stage.
A counselor uses 'double-sided reflection' when a client expresses ambivalence. This technique involves:
Answer: Reflecting both sides of the client's ambivalence in a single statement
Double-sided reflection acknowledges both sides of a client's ambivalence in one statement, helping them hear their own conflicting motivations and often prompting movement toward change.
Which of the following best represents a 'closed question' in counseling?
Answer: 'Are you currently using any substances?'
A closed question elicits a brief, often yes/no response and limits elaboration, whereas open questions invite the client to share more information.
The 'ruler technique' used in MI asks clients to rate their readiness to change on a scale from 0 to 10. This is primarily used to:
Answer: Assess motivation and elicit change talk by exploring the client's rating
The ruler technique (readiness ruler) is an MI strategy to assess motivation and elicit change talk by asking clients why they chose a particular number and not a lower one.
In MI, 'sustain talk' refers to:
Answer: Client statements that favor maintaining the status quo or not changing
Sustain talk is the counterpart to change talk — it reflects the client's arguments for not changing and is associated with less likelihood of behavior change.
Which of the following is a key principle underlying person-centered counseling as developed by Carl Rogers?
Answer: Unconditional positive regard, empathy, and genuineness are necessary for therapeutic change
Rogers identified unconditional positive regard, accurate empathy, and genuineness (congruence) as the core conditions necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change.