Motivational Interviewing for Community Corrections: Expanding a Relationship-based Approach with Exemplar Implementation.

MOTIVATIONAL interviewing; CLINICAL psychology; BEHAVIOR; EMPLOYEE motivation; AUTONOMY (Psychology); COMPULSIVE behavior

As a technical assistancegroup, we have been fortunate to implementthe practice of MI, and we add some reasonswhy MI is a boon to training efforts: * "MI appears to be the exception to theoften-cited gap between research andpractice a result of highly successful disseminationactivities of its founders" (Hallet al., 2015, p. 1144). * There has been a large empirical examinationof training methods in MI: * MI has unique literature about effectivemechanisms for training MI. (2010), who reported, "This study providesthe first evidence that program-based trainers,prepared adequately to teach MI, can helpstaff to learn MI with training outcomes similarto those achieved by an expert" (p. 439).The answer to the frustrated probation chiefwas realized. MI has found the amount of trainingwe recommend our MI trainers deliveris enough to change staff behavior, but post-trainingcoaching and feedback is needed tochange client behavior (Miller & Mount, 2001;Stinson & Clark, 2017). [Extracted from the article]

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