Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems (Applications of Motivational Interviewin) [Hardcover]

Hal Arkowitz PhD (Editor), Henny A. Westra PhD (Editor), William R. Miller Phd (Editor), Stephen Rollnick PhD (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1593855850 | ISBN-13: 978-1593855857 | Publication Date: October 18, 2007 | Edition: 1

Since the publication of Miller and Rollnick's classic Motivational Interviewing, MI has become hugely popular as a tool for facilitating many different kinds of positive behavior change. MI is increasingly being used to help individuals mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for addressing a wide range of mental health concerns. This cutting-edge book brings together leading experts to describe MI applications in the treatment of anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicidal behavior, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, gambling addictions, schizophrenia, and dual diagnoses. Also addressed are MI approaches in the criminal justice system. Each chapter provides a concise overview of the disorder or population under discussion; describes how MI has been integrated with standard treatment approaches; illustrates the nuts and bolts of intervention, using vivid clinical examples; and reviews the empirical evidence base.

Editorial Reviews

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"This is the book I've been waiting for! It details encouraging results from the use of motivational interviewing (MI)--a brief intervention with well-documented effectiveness with substance abusers--for treating patients with a range of other conditions. Clinicians who want to enhance their therapeutic effectiveness should read this book and consider whether and how MI might enable them to better help patients achieve their therapeutic goals."--Peter E. Nathan, PhD, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Public Health, University of Iowa

"This excellent book is essential reading for therapists and students interested in motivational interviewing (MI). Expert practitioners offer a step-by-step guide to MI with people who may have any of a wide range of mental health problems, and who hesitate to accept help. Valuable vignettes and therapist-patient dialogues illustrate how to manage various clinical scenarios with skill and sensitivity. The chapters also succinctly review MI research for each type of problem under consideration."--Isaac Marks, MD, FRCPsych, Professor Emeritus, King's College Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

"Are any of your patients stuck? Read this book. Motivational interviewing has brought the crucial issue of motivation--particularly motivation for change--back to the center of treatment where it belongs. This wonderful book gives ways to work with ambivalence about change in treating people with many problems and disorders. It is easy to read and highly appropriate for beginners as well as experienced practitioners."--Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"A terrific book for all therapists who seek a positive, respectful, and collaborative approach for helping clients move toward positive change. Motivational interviewing (MI) represents a way of being with clients, rather than another school of therapy, making it a useful alternative or adjunct to other models when the going gets difficult."--Carol M. Anderson, PhD, Western Psychiatric Institute and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

About the Author

Hal Arkowitz, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. His main interests are in understanding how people change and why they don’t. Dr. Arkowitz has published widely in the areas of anxiety, depression, psychotherapy, and psychotherapy integration. Along with Scott O. Lilienfeld, he is a co-columnist for the magazine Scientific American Mind. A past Editor of the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, he maintains an active clinical practice.

 

Henny A. Westra, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Anxiety Research Clinic at York University in Toronto. Prior to this, she was the Clinical Director of the Anxiety and Affective Disorders Service at the London Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Westra has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as given over 100 presentations and workshops, on the treatment of anxiety. She has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for her research on motivational interviewing, expectations for change, and engagement with treatment.

 

William R. Miller, PhD, is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. With over 400 publications, including 35 books, Dr. Miller introduced the concept of motivational interviewing in a 1983 article. He was named by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the world's most cited scientists.

 

Stephen Rollnick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Health Care Communication in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, UK. He has written books on motivational interviewing and health behavior change, has published widely in scientific journals, and has taught practitioners and trainers in many countries throughout the world.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 354 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (October 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593855850
• ISBN-13: 978-1593855857
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. William R. Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. Fundamentally interested in the psychology of change, he has focused in particular on the development, testing, and dissemination of behavioral treatments for addictions. He maintains an active interest in pastoral counseling and the integration of spirituality and psychology. The Institute for Scientific Information lists him as one of the world's most cited scientists.

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helping People Get Unstuck, November 18, 2007

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Dr. Richard G. Petty (Atlanta) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems (Applications of Motivational Interviewin) (Hardcover)

Motivation is an essential component of so much what we do in life, whether we are trying to get up and go to the gym, do the laundry or deal with addiction. This seems so obvious, but the idea of using specific interventions to help people on their way is fairly new, and really fond its feet with the publication of William Miller and Stephen Rollnick's classic book Motivational Interviewing. The central idea of motivational interviewing (MI), is to help people to mobilize their energy, commitment and personal resources.
As an example, most of us are ambivalent about change and the steps that we need to take to implement change in our day-to-day lives. It can be a great deal worse in people struggling with, say, anxiety or addiction. So in MI the therapist recognizes, accepts and integrates this ambivalence - "I was to change but at the same time I am going to resist change" - as part of a normal process. Rather than attacking resistance, what is done is to give an individual the chance to hear, honor, validate, and integrate these different parts of him or herself. The whole approach is positive and collaborative, and it often works particularly well with people who are getting "stuck."

Over the last five year MI has become extremely popular as a tool for encouraging and facilitating many different kinds of positive behavior change. This excellent book is part of the Applications of Motivational Interviewing Series, edited by Stephen Rollnick and William R. Miller.

There are thirteen chapters by leading experts in the field of MI:

1. Learning, Applying, and Extending Motivational Interviewing: Hal Arkowitz and William R. Miller
2. Integrating Motivational Interviewing into the Treatment of Anxiety: Henny A. Westra and David J. A. Dozois
3. Enhancing Combat Veterans' Motivation to Change Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Other Problem Behaviors: Ronald T. Murphy
4. Motivating Treatment-Refusing Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: David F. Tolin and Nicholas Maltby
5. Motivational Interviewing as a Prelude to Psychotherapy of Depression: Allan Zuckoff, Holly A. Swartz, and Nancy K. Grote
6. Motivational Interviewing as an Integrative Framework for the Treatment of Depression: Hal Arkowitz and Brian L. Burke
7. Motivational Interviewing and Suicidality: Harry Zerler
8. Motivational Interviewing in the Management of Eating Disorders: Janet Treasure and Ulrike Schmidt
9. Motivational Interviewing and the Treatment of Problem and Pathological Gambling: David Hodgins and Katherine Diskin
10. Motivational Interviewing for Medication Adherence in Individuals with Schizophrenia: Stanley G. McCracken and Patrick W. Corrigan
11. Motivational Interviewing with Dually Diagnosed Patients: Steve Martino and Theresa B. Moyers
12. Motivational Interviewing in the Correctional System: An Attempt to Implement Motivational Interviewing in Criminal Justice: Carl Åke Farbring and Wendy R. Johnson
13. Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems: Conclusions and Future Directions: Hal Arkowitz, William R. Miller, Henny A. Westra, and Stephen Rollnick

As you will see from the chapter headings, the authors try to describe novel MI applications in the treatment of an array of different psychological and psychiatric problems from to schizophrenia. There is also something unusual: an attempt to look MI approaches in the criminal justice system.

The chapters are all very well written and follow the same format: a concise but adequate overview of the disorder or the population being discussed, followed by a description of ways in which MI has been integrated with standard treatment approaches. This is a very practical book that uses a step-by-step approach to show exactly how to use MI, and the methods are illustrated with well-chosen clinical cases. Finally there is a review of the research base.

MI seems to be here to stay, and many of the methods are also being applied outside the clinic, particularly in helping people who have trouble with making appropriate lifestyle choices. There has recently been a great deal of interest in using MI to help with problems such as weight management and smoking cessation.

This book is extremely valuable not only for anybody engaged in therapy but also for anyone interested in motivation and behavior change.

Highly recommended.


Richard G. Petty, MD, author of Healing, Meaning and Purpose: The Magical Power of the Emerging Laws of Life

33 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Was Expecting, June 15, 2008

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Etherialgirl "(as in a reformed material girl)" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems (Applications of Motivational Interviewin) (Hardcover)

This book provides an excellent overview of:

1) What Motivational Interviewing is
2) When its use is appropriate (always, in their opinion -- but I'm sold on that)
3) How it (favorably) compares to other methods of therapy

What is doesn't give you is a strong foundation for how to use the technique. I was hoping for this, so I was disappointed.

I guess you can sort of figure it out by reading the book -- but if using Motivational Interviewing is your goal, you're probably better off with a book that offers a more "how-to" approach.

Also, within the example chapters on different diagnoses, the authors included a few too many pages on background information, such as prevalence data. I felt the degree to which this tangential information was addressed was off-topic. I would have preferred for the focus to have stayed on Motivational Interviewing. I would have learned more that way.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Expanded use for MI, January 16, 2009

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J S Reader "J S Reader" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems (Applications of Motivational Interviewin) (Kindle Edition)

I am a clinical supervisor in a behavioral health unit that serves mostly general mental health and substance abuse, a lot of co-occuring disorders, a lot of personality disorders. I have attended seminars by Miller & Duncan, read several of their books, been on their web site, watched training videos from their earlier work in the 1990s, use the CDOI method for assessing progress for groups & individual treatment, and supervise associate level therapists using these methods as well. Most of our treatment is shorter term. This book makes the assumption you have some background in use of motivational interviewing and gives you more specific detail on how to use the technique for everything we do at our agency. It's giving you the 'essence of the spirit' of MI. It works. This level of detail saves you time in working it out for yourself. You still have to put in the time with clients, but you might save them some headaches & heartaches in the meantime. Worthwhile. I will be looking up how to download some of the chapters from my Kindle so I can share it with staff more effectively.