stephenrollnick

I noticed I got a lot of views on my last topic, but no replies,

The reason I want to put this up for discussion, does Motivational Interviewing come across as soft manipualation?
Is simply because at present, I am studying social care and what has come to my attention, as I said to Stephen him self via e-mail, who went on to suggest that I should put this up for discussion,as this topic is familar and that people can learn from eachother.

I am all for each and everyone of us as humans we have the right to our own decisions and choices in life,
so by right we should all have the right to have the choice to decide on what therepy/treatment if you like is to be applied.
Is there a wrong way to apply M.I and if so what types of effects can this have on the client?,
also if the spirit/essense is gone out of the therepy sessions what then?

and again I ask what negective effects does this have on the client?.

Well done for persisting!  I had been locked out of my own website!

What a topic you raise.  I wonder whether you have had experiences of people presenting MI with perhaps not such a good grasp of it?

Sounds defensive of me to suggest that, but I honestly feel that practiced with compassion and empathy, its not manipulative to steer a conversation in a direction that you genuinely feel is in the best interests of the client. If you are either not genuine or you have chosen an horizon that the client find difficult to travel towards, you should notice this in their response and body language. if in any doubt, ask them....

I bet you are still worried about this reply, so let's hear why?

Best wishes

Steve

PS Just to clarify, I dont run a sort of information service on Mi and training in MI, and dont feel that i should, could or want to have the last word... this forum is for anyone to chip in.... and say what they feel.....

Persistant I am,

Thanks Stephen for your reply and your brutal honesty, which I respect.

I am actually happy with what you have said, believe it or not.

So I am going to leave it at that for now and put my question and expierence/s down to incompetency without comapassion and empathy on the trainers part,
 which sadness me I might add, to think that that is even possible.