Examining Motivational Interviewing From a Client Agency Perspective.

Although empirical investigations strongly support the use of motivational interviewing (MI), there is no theory to clearly explain how or why MI works. The authors propose that MI is efficacious because it mobilizes clients' inherent resources for motivation, learning, creativity, problem solving,...

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Published in:	Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 65; no. 9; pp. 955 - 971
Main Authors:	Faris, Alexander S., Cavell, Timothy A., Fishburne, John W., Britton, Peter C.
Format:	Article
Published:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc. September 2009
Subjects:	Motivational interviewing Psychotherapist-patient relations
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost