A better day

A more productive day today (I think):

Training workshop on motivational, interviewing with some very engaged and interesting delegates. 

Was rather nippy in the Jaguar Building, but we just about coped.

One of the things we discussed was the use of motivational interviewing with children.  I suspect that there may be a need to adapt the delivery - perhaps by using graphics, games and stories, etc. that take into account children's level of socio-emotional and cognitive development - but haven't come across anything in print.

A couple of related papers are:

Gance-Cleveland, B. (2007). Motivational interviewing: Improving patient education. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 21(2), 81-88.


Söderlund, L. L., Nordqvist, C., Angbratt, M., & Nilsen, P. (2009). Applying motivational interviewing to counselling overweight and obese children. Health Education Research, 24(3), 442-449.

We also (briefly) mentioned various systems for rating the quality of motivational interviewing. See:

Forsberg, L., Källmén, H., Hermansson, U., Berman, A., & Helgason, Á. (2007). Coding counsellor behaviour in motivational interviewing sessions: Inter-rater reliability for the swedish motivational interviewing treatment integrity code (MITI). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 36(3), 162-169.


Madson, M. B., & Campbell, T. C. (2006). Measures of fidelity in motivational enhancement: A systematic review. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 31(1), 67-73.

Mastroleo, N. R., Mallett, K. A., Turrisi, R., & Ray, A. E. (2009). Psychometric properties of the peer proficiency assessment (PEPA): A tool for evaluation of undergraduate peer counselors' motivational interviewing fidelity. Addictive Behaviors, 34(9), 717-722.

Wallace, L., & Turner, F. (2009). A systematic review of psychometric evaluation of motivational interviewing integrity measures. Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 8(1-2), 84-123.