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Kudos for Miller and Rollnick. As a longtime clinician and trainer of clinicians, I found Miller and Rollnick’s “Motivational Interviewing” (2d edition) extremely sound, helpful and thoughtful. A great book for clinicians to read who are tempted to push one side of a patient’s ambivalence (”But can’t you see you have to leave him — he’s no good for you!”)and not to respect the other side of it.
Very helpful instructional manual. I love this book. The second edition is a big improvement over the first as it makes the MI approach more generic (as it should be) and less tied specifically to substance abuse. I regularly use this book when teaching beginning therapy skills to doctoral students in clinical psychology, but it’s not just a book for beginners. What I like is the way Miller & Rollnick spend a lot of time talking about generic skills fundamental to any healthy therapeutic relationship — and especially their discussions about different types of reflective listening and dealing with resistance. The MI approach is especially helpful in dealing with clients who are struggling with ambivalence about their problems (or about being in therapy) — which happens with great frequency in any practice (not just with substance abusers or court-ordered clients). I wish I had had this book 30 years ago when I was starting out as a therapist. I love teaching from it because I can still pick out gems even now. MI fits well with all sorts of other psychotherapy techniques, including client-centered, cognitive-behavioral, and strategic/structural.
comprehensive. Addiction is a difficult and time-consuming health problem. Evidence-based practice is always useful.
Jean Boutiere
Industry standard, so to speak. I had to read it for a class, and initially just checked it out from the library, but it was a decent book, and apparently it’s well known in the counseling world, so I bought it.