The Impact of Therapists' Responses to Resistance to Change: A Sequential Analysis of Therapist Client Interactions in Motivational Interviewing

Alcohol and Alcoholism : International Journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism
L DrageB M Bewick

Abstract

The study aims to examine how therapists trained in motivational interviewing (MI) respond to resistance and whether this has an impact on subsequent client speech. Fifty recorded Motivational Enhancement Therapy sessions were examined using a sequential behavioural coding method for speech. Client counter-change talk formed the baseline for coding and categorizing subsequent therapist speech and the following client speech. Transitional analysis identified the probable occurrence of specific therapist and client utterances at each stage. Following client expressed resistance or counter-change talk, MI consistent therapist utterances were most commonly observed. A moderate to strong predictive relationship was found between MI-consistent therapist speech and subsequent client change talk. A moderate predictive relationship was found between therapist MI-consistent behaviours and client ambivalence. A moderate to strong predictive relationship was found between MI-inconsistent therapist speech and subsequent client counter-change talk and a weak negative predictive relationship was found between MI-inconsistent therapist speech and client expressed ambivalence. In the face of initial expressed resistance to change, MI-consistent...Continue Reading

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