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What's Hope Got To Do With Motivational Interviewing?

An on-going conversation in the community of motivational interviewing trainers and teachers centers on the role of hope.  Based on my clinical experience of 30 years helping people to think about behavior change, I consider hope to be a crucial element.  Clients and patients often feel hopeless about their situation.  Therefore, it is the clinician's job to evoke hope from them by helping them to remember past successes.  Sometimes clients borrow the clinician's hope until they can find their own. 

Motivational interviewing trainers may also loan hope to trainees when the skills of motivational interviewing seem elusive.  As a motivational interview trainer, I must model my hope that clinicans can also incorporate new skills into their existing repertoire of helping behaviors.

Yahne, C. E. (2004) The role of hope in motivational interviewing. Minuet Motivational Interviewing Newsletter: Updates, Education, and Training. Volume 11, 3, page 5.    

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