PowerPoint Makeovers: Before and After

Dr. Marilyn Herie PhD RSW www.educateria.com

Four Fundamental Processes of MI (Miller, 2010)

1. Engaging: The relational foundation 2. Focusing: Strategic centering (1 and 2 occur in all types of psychotherapy) 3. Evoking: A conscious choice 4. Planning: Implementation intention

(combination of a specific plan and a stated intention to do it = highly predictive of change)

Engaging

Focusing Evoking

Planning

Four Processes in MI

Adapted from Miller and Rollnick, 2013, p. 26

Elicit/Provide/Elicit Sequence

Elicit the patient’s understanding of the problem Provide information Elicit patient’s response to your information

Ask/Reflect Tell Ask/Reflect

A-C-E Autonomy Collaboration Evocation

Authority Coercion Education

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Autonomy Collaboration

Evocation

Authority Coercion Education

He really hurt you, but you don’t know how you’d survive financially if you left.

If you had some resources to fall back on, it would make it easier to leave him – but there are other things too that are keeping you with him.

“I know that Rick really lost his temper this time, but what can I do? I don’t even have a credit card in my own name!”

Simple Reflection

Complex Reflection

He really hurt you, but you don’t know how you’d survive financially if you left.

If you had some resources to fall back on, it would make it easier to leave him – but there are other things too that are keeping you with him.

“I know that Rick really lost his temper this time, but what can I do? I don’t even have a credit card in my own name!”

Seven changes anyone can make:

1. Smile 2. Get close to the audience 3. Learn (and use!) peoples’ names 4. Ask questions 5. Acknowledge to yourself that

you don’t have all the answers 6. Get there early 7. End on time

8 changes anyone can

make…

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