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Motivational Interviewing Self-Evaluation Checklist 2025

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The document is a self-evaluation checklist for improving Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills, focusing on key principles such as developing discrepancy, rolling with resistance, expressing empathy, and supporting self-efficacy. It outlines specific microskills like affirmations, reflective listening, open-ended questions, and eliciting change talk. The checklist emphasizes goals related to client engagement, assessing motivation, addressing ambivalence, promoting internal motivation, and supporting client strengths.

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Begin with the DRES section. Reflect on each component: Develop Discrepancy, Roll with Resistance, Express Empathy, and Support Self-efficacy. Use the provided prompts to evaluate your skills and write down your thoughts.
Move to the AROSE section. Assess your use of Affirmations, Reflective Listening, Open-ended Questions, Summaries, and Eliciting Change Talk. Fill in your self-assessment based on recent interactions.
Review the goals outlined for Engagement, Assessing Motivation, Addressing Ambivalence, Promoting Internal Motivation, Eliciting Change Talk, Rolling with Resistance, and Supporting Client Strengths. For each goal, provide specific examples from your practice that demonstrate your proficiency or areas for improvement.
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How to measure the effectiveness of motivational interviewing?

The CEMI also may provide a way to assess the quality of MI delivered to clients. Typically, the CEMI is a self-administered tool given to the client following an MI based counseling session and asks the client to rate the degree to which a counselor exhibited specific MI-related behaviors (Madson et al., 2009).

What is the client evaluation of motivational interviewing scale?

The Client Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing scale (CEMI) is a measure for assessing client perceptions of clinicians use of motivational interviewing (MI).

What is the motivational interviewing rating scale?

The Motivational Interviewing Coach Rating Scale (MI-CRS) was developed for MI supervisors/coaches to listen to real or standard patient interactions and immediately rate 12 items in a one pass coding system.

What are the 5 basic principles of Motivational Interviewing?

He presents the concept of Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a way of communicating trust between two people involved in a conversation. ONeill says the five pillars of MI are autonomy, acceptance, adaptation, empathy, and evocation.

What is the Motivational Interviewing evaluation rubric?

The MIER is a 15-item observation tool that measures the subcategories of MI spirit, process, and skills from brief recordings (20 min or less). Introduction The use of collaborative communication techniques by criminal justice practitioners has been identified as a component of core correctional practices (CCPs).

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