Motivational interviewing (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Freudenthal, J. Motivational interviewing (MI) to promote positive oral health behaviors of mothers enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), 2005: p. 6 (motivational interviewing; a brief counseling approach that focuses on skills needed to motivate people and provide strategies to move patients from inaction to action)

Feltham, Colin, and Windy Dryden. Dict. of counsel., 2nd ed., c2004: p. 142 (motivational interviewing)

Miller, W.R. Motivational interviewing, 1991.

LC database, Aug. 4, 2006 (motivational interviewing; motivational counseling; motivational enhancement intervention)

OCLC, Aug. 4, 2006 (motivational interviewing)

Thes. of psych. index terms, 10th ed., c2005

Here are entered works on the counseling approach that aspires to motivate clients, often with drug and alcohol addictions, and move them from inaction to action, at whatever stage of change they may be.