Motivational Interviewing

Motivational interviewing involves (choose the best answer):

• Listening, paraphrasing, summarizing
• Communication, socratic questioning, documentation
• Collaboration, evocation, autonomy
• Confabulation, eructation, phlebotomy

Traditional interviewing (choose the best answer):

• Is all about partnering with the patient
• Focuses on fixing a problem
• Strengthens the patient's reasons to change
• Focuses on the patient's real issues

The main advantage of motivational interviewing is (choose the best answer):

• It communicates the plan of treatment
• It assumes the patient is motivated to change
• It is paternalistic
• It is patient centered

The four core counseling approaches of motivational interviewing are:

• Express empathy, develop a discrepancy, roll with resistance, support self-efficacy
• Express concern, develop a plan, implement plan, monitor outcomes
• Express empathy, develop talking points, provide written instructions, follow up
• Define the problem, plan treatment, educate patient, measure outcomes

An effective motivational interviewing technique is:

• Define-describe-demonstrate
• Ask closed ended questions
• Ask-provide-ask
• To work from a problem list

Motivational interviewing focuses on the patient's concerns (True or False):

• True
• False

In motivational interviewing (choose the best answer):

• Goals are set for the patient
• Interventions are chosen by the IDT
• Ambivalence and resistance are significant barriers change
• Ambivalence and resistance are normal and expected

To best support self-efficacy (choose the best answer):

• Set goals and timelines for achievement
• Celebrate successes
• Monitor how well the patient follows the treatment plan
• Reason away resistance

Motivational interviewing allows us to (choose the best answer):

• Identify problems to be fixed
• Identify issues with non-adherence
• Identify the best goals for the patient
• Identify problems from the patient's perspective

Motivational interviewing (choose the best answer):

• Provides a method for achievement of required clinical outcomes
• Empowers patients to manage their own health and personal goals
• Encourages self-management, which is usually unsuccessful
• Is required by CMS