The primary goals of motivational interviewing are to engage clients, elicit change talk, and evoke motivation to make positive changes from the client. Change may happen quickly or may take a large amount of time, and the pace of …show more content…
change varies between clients. Awareness by itself is usually not sufficient to motivate change within a client, and difficulties in maintaining changes should be thought of as normal. Counselors should recognize that motivational interviewing includes collaboration, but not confrontation, evocation, but not education, and autonomy rather than authority, and exploration instead of explanation. Effective methods for positive change focuses on goals that are small, important to the client, specific, realistic, and oriented in the present and/or future. It would help me to facilitate them accomplishing their goals by getting them motivated to make the necessary changes.
It tends to be more effective when the client is willing to make the changes on their own. There is no effective way of encouraging someone to make changes that they are not willing to do on their own. These changes would only be short term, if they happened at all. I feel that, with this method in mind, that I will be a more effective counselor in being able to help my future clients by motivating them to help themselves, and in a sense be their own cheer leaders. It would be very rewarding for me to have clients return, having made all the necessary changes, and thank me for inspiring them to do the work needed to accomplish their goals. As a social work it is unrealistic to think all your encounters will turn out as planned, some may take many attempts, and still others may never work out at all. I feel that with this approach, statistically speaking, I have a better chance at having a higher percentage of successes. Change is the hardest and least liked thing for people to do. It is critical for their success in accomplishing their future planned changes if they are motivated to make them. It would work best in group therapy, I would think, because it would encourage a strong support base to pull from at meetings, and a venue to talk of their maintaining their changes. It is also a strong motivator to not want to fail in front of
others. This class has helped me a lot by hearing real life stories of situations with clients. The movies were a big help in understanding different dynamics in families and the types of dysfunctions that can happen. I feel that we had a very good class, and I was even able to gain knowledge through their sharing of experiences. Micro was an, especially, good class for me since I am planning on working in micro practice. The main thing I will take with me is the motivational interviewing skill. I am very pro towards non- confrontational interviewing. I have never heard of it ever having long term success. I believe the greatest chance you have of effecting change in my clients is by motivating them to want the changes. Without self -motivation it will never be a long term change. I will also take with me the experience I had to see Mrs. Anderson conduct a social work / client role play, it was very enlightening. It is one thing to read about it, but to see an experienced veteran of social work in action was the best teacher. This class has been the most inspiration for me as a soon to be social worker. I feel confident that with the skills and training that I have gotten from this class and all my others at UCF, that I will be very successful as a social worker.