All posts tagged "motivational interviewing"
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Stop Complaining and Start Making a Plan
Many are deeply unhappy in their lives but experience a tremendous amount of inertia. Some of that inertia...
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Understanding The Stages Of Change
While motivational interviewing was originally conceived as a way to treat drug and alcohol addiction its applications are...
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Energizing To Change Your Life For The Better
What is the single greatest threat to going all in on changing your life for the better? It’s...
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Helping People Change Maladaptive Behaviors
The same rules apply for helping people change in therapy as in the wider sphere of life. Probably...
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Setting An Intention To Change
Regardless of the presenting problem, what we usually see from clients is that they dearly wish to overcome...
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Motivational Interviewing And Getting Back To Maintenance
The stages of change in motivational interviewing are: pre-contemplation contemplation preparation action maintenance Whether a therapist was helping...
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Increased Awareness And Impatience
In a motivational interviewing paradigm the stages for any significant life changes are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and...
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Isolate The Desirable Elements Of Your Addiction
As an addict, and we mean compulsive dependence on anything not just a chemical substance, if you’re unable...
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Breaking A Bad Habit
Other than the fact that behavioral patterns become hardwired over time to the point where they’re enacted almost...
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Choosing The Person You Want To Be
From the existential point of view what separates the human process of becoming from the process of becoming...
