Making a behavioral change

Analyze and answer the following power point to answer the questions about Motivational Interviewing in a reflective manner.

֎ Reflect on yourself and assess your own changes. Describe a time when you had to make a behavioral change. How did you do it? Do you now recognize the stages through which you progressed? Describe them.

  • The behavioral change I had to make was to become more optimistic and change the mindset before taking exams since that was affecting my performance.

֎ How do you think you would be able to determine what stage a patient is in (as related to change)?

֎ How would you move a patient from one stage to the next? (you can start anywhere on the continuum)