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Welcome to Effectiveness Bank alerts, a service provided by the Drug and Alcohol Findings project to
alert you to site updates and recent evaluation studies and reviews with important practice
implications. ISSUE 12 of the Drug and Alcohol Findings magazine first published in 2005 is now
being made available free of charge as downloadable PDFs (Adobe Acrobat files). This is the first of
the articles. More to follow.
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MANNERS MATTER PART 3: THE MOTIVATIONAL HELLO
Motivational interviewing is the most influential counselling style in addiction treatment, and,
believe it or not, it works best freestyle - WITHOUT the manual. At first we doubted our conclusion,
but later it was confirmed by Bill Miller himself, even though he wrote some of the manuals. Neither
is it the at-least-it-cannot-do-any-harm approach some took it to be - it can be, it has been,
counterproductive. We trace the development of the approach and of the research from its first
outing among Albuquerque drinkers to its diaspora among European and other drug users. Bottom line?
QUOTE: the approach requires sensitivity and social skills. Yet that perhaps understates it.
True-to-type motivational interviewing IS the application of sensitivity and social skills, acquired
by the therapist as much in their lives outside this therapy as inside it, and developed less by
formal training than by interaction with clients combined with individualised feedback from expert
coaches.
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