Resources

This page is a collection of our favorite resources, links to other MI sites, and book reviews. Each month we review a research article germane to the practice or research base for MI. Check back regularly for updates on this page.

Websites

There are many resources available via the web. The best site for all things MI is the official webpage of the MI Network of Trainers at www.motivationalinterviewing.org. This website contains a treasure trove of information including an extensive and searchable MI bibliography, a listing of MI trainers, MI training events, and links to individual web pages of MI trainers. It contains recommendations about training lengths and goals, as well as important things to consider when hiring a MI trainer.

Here are a few other resources to consider:

• You can get your MI questions answered by the author himself at www.stephenrollnick.com.
• Institute for Motivation and Change specializes in MI within Health Care settings. It has a free newsletter and tip sheet that you can sign up for at: www.miinstitute.com.
• Centre for Motivation and Change provides excellent information about international training and events. It can be found at: www.motivationalinterview.nl.

Audiovisual Resources in MI

There is an ever growing library of video materials available for use in learning MI. Our favorites include:

• Motivational Interviewing Professional Training DVD (or Tapes) (1998). Originally published as a six volume set, it has been remastered onto a single DVD. There is a wealth of information about MI, as well as master trainers (e.g., Bill Miller, Steve Rollnick & Terri Moyers) demonstrating MI techniques. Produced by the University of New Mexico, the DVD ordering information can be found on the MI website at www.motivationalinterview.net/training/videos.html.
• Motivational Interviewing with Dr. William R. Miller (2000). This tape is part of the Brief Therapy for Addictions Series. It contains an interview with Bill Miller describing MI, then an extended interaction with a real client, followed by a discussion with a studio audience. This video shows a master working his craft. It is available through Psychotherapy Net.
• MI in Practice: The Edinburgh Interview (2006). This enhanced CD is a fabulous learning tool. The CD contains a transcript and an audio recording of a UK health services worker using MI with a man that has decided that he will drink himself to death. The CD describes the course of this man's treatment, and provides follow-up interviews with him, his practitioner and master MI trainer, Jeff Allison. Ordering details can be found at www.jeffallison.co.uk.
• Join Up (1996). This is not MI per se, but rather a video of horse gentler Monty Roberts describing and then demonstrating his philosophies of horse training. The tape, which provides a vivid metaphor for MI work, is available through www.montyroberts.com.

We encourage you to check out the videos page on the Mi website (www.motivationalinterview.net) for other offerings.

MI Books

Guilford is the publishing home for MI books.  They've titled these volumes Applications of Motivational Interviewing Series and they can be found this link:
www.guilford.com/AMI

Individual titles can be found below:


Rosengren, D. (2009). Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook. New York: Guilford Press.
www.guilford.com/p/rosengren




Rollnick, S, Miller, WR, & Rollnick, S (2008). Motivational Interviewing in Health Care. Helping Patients Change Behavior. New York: Guilford Press.
www.guilford.com/p/rollnick

Arkowitz, H., Estra, H., Miller, W.R., & Rollnick, S. (2008). Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems.  New York: Guilford Press.
www.guilford.com/p/arkowitz

Naar-King, S. & Suarez, M. (2011). Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults.  New York: Guilford Press.
www.guilford.com/p/NaarKing  


An Eye on Research

Terri Moyers, Ph.D., has been investigating the processes that occur within MI sessions. Specifically, she is linking clinician activity to subsequent client behavior and then evaluates how client behaviors predict later treatment outcomes. Most recently, she and colleagues report on the results of two trials.

In the first, study she describes the development of SCOPE (Sequential Code for Observing Process Exchanges), an instrument that codes clinician's behavior as MI consistent, inconsistent or neutral and then evaluates what type of client responses occur subsequently. SCOPE demonstrates clear correlations between MI consistent behaviors and change talk; it also shows that client sustain or resistance talk happens when clinician's engage in MI inconsistent behavior. This finding supports that clinician behavior is associated with the appearance of change talk and sustain talk. This data was extracted from 38 Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) videotapes made during the Project MATCH trial. These tapes, chosen randomly from a larger sample, came from five sites around the USA and involved people receiving treatment for alcohol dependence or abuse as outpatients or in aftercare.

The second study also used MATCH data, but only from the New Mexico site of MATCH. Using 45 videotapes, selected at random from a total of 226, this study found that Change Talk in the first treatment session predicted outcomes at the 9 to 12 month follow-up, even when problem severity at baseline was taken into account. Perhaps most interesting about this study was that it evaluated Change Talk across all three MATCH treatment conditions (MET, Twelve Step Facilitation and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy; n = 15 per condition). Change talk was observed in all three and predicted outcome in all three. This research supports the association between clinician behavior, client behavior and treatment outcome and demonstrates that change talk is not specific to one form of therapy. It also suggests that therapies, like MI, that attempt to elicit and reinforce change talk may be important in improving client outcomes.

Moyers, TB, Manuel, JK, Wilson, PG, Hendrickson, SML, Talcot, W, & Durand, P (2008). A randomized trial investigating training in motivational interviewing for behavioral health providers. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36, 149-162.