Main description:

*Bestseller with over 125,000 in print, completely rewritten; over 90% new material reflects advances in MI as well as the changing health care landscape.
*Authoritative--Rollnick and Miller are the renowned co-developers of this in-demand, empirically supported method.
*Tailor made for busy health care providers; concise, accessible, affordable, practical, and illustrated with clinical dialogues.
*For providers in any setting, from private practice and hospitals to health clinics, rehab centers, pharmacies, and schools.
*A key to effective health care is patient adherence; MI tackles behavior change head-on.
*New or expanded coverage of working with hostile or resistant patients, vaccine hesitancy (not Covid-specific), and delivering bad news.

Contents:

Prologue
I. Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
1. Good Practice: The Compassionate Guide
2. Motivational Interviewing
II. Skills
3. Asking
4. Listening
5. Affirming
6. Summarizing
III. Motivational Interviewing in Practice
7. Connecting with a Person: Engaging
8. Finding Direction: Focusing
9. Addressing the Why and How of Change: Evoking
10. Heading Into Action: Planning
IV. Everyday Challenges
11. Offering Advice and Information
12. MI Briefly
13. MI and Assessment
14. MI in Groups
15. MI Remotely
16. MI for Administrators and Managers
V. Inside Motivational Interviewing
17. Vaccine Hesitancy: A Case Study
18. MI in Depth: What Would You Say Next?
Appendix. A Practitioner's Guide to Motivational Interviewing Research
References
Index