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MET Unique Characteristics
~ Emphasis on personal choice regarding future behavior
~ Objective evaluation focused on eliciting the CLIENT’s OWN concerns
~ Resistance is an interpersonal behavior pattern indicating failure to accurately empathize
~ Resistance is met with reflection
Motivational Enhancement Therapists Do NOT
~ Argue with clients
~ Impose diagnostic labels
~ Tell clients what they “must” do
~ Seek to “break down” denial through direct confrontation
~ Imply client’s powerlessness
OARS
~ Open Ended Questions
~ Affirmations
~ Reflective Listening
~ Summaries
Stages of Change
~ Motivation needs to be enhanced and maintained in all stages of change
~ Stages
~ Precontemplation
~ Contemplation
~ Preparation
~ Action
~ Maintenance
Basic Principles: EE-DD-AA-RR-SS
~ Express Empathy
~ Reflective listening (accurate empathy) is a key skill
~ Develop Discrepancy
~ Perceive a discrepancy between where they are and where they want to be
~ Raise clients’ awareness of the personal consequences of their drinking in order to precipitate a crisis increasing motivation for change
~ Avoid Arguing
~ No attempt is made to have the client accept or “admit” a problem

Basic Principles cont…
~ Roll with resistance
~ New ways of thinking about problems are invited but not imposed.
~ Ambivalence is viewed as normal, not pathological, and is explored openly.
~ Solutions are usually evoked from the client rather than provided by the therapist
~ Support self-efficacy
~ People will not try to change unless they believe there is HOPE for success

CBT vs. MET
Cognitive Behavioral
~ Assumes client is motivated
~ Identify and modify maladaptive cognitions
~ Prescribes change strategies
Motivational Enhancement
~ Builds client motivation
~ Explores and reflects client perception without correcting
~ Elicits change strategies from the client

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