Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment, TIP Series 35

by William R. Miller

This is a great booklet on using a motivational interviewing style. The book mainly addresses treating addictions, but nods to the effectiveness of using MI to help clients to find the motivation within themselves to make improvement in other aspects of their lives.

HOWEVER, this book is published by SAMHSA and is provided FREE to health care providers from their website, so people who are selling their copies are definitely trying to rip off unsuspecting consumers.

273 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

William Richard Miller is an American clinical psychologist, an emeritus distinguished professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Miller and Stephen Rollnick are the co-founders of motivational interviewing.

Reviews

[LemontreeLime · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a crash course on motivational counseling (born of Carl Roger's Humanism) but unfortunately written in the same format as those legendary stereo instructions from the movie Beetlejuice.

[MsChris · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very informative book with a lot of great information, but a very dry book that's difficult to read through. Would be a good, simple reference text, however.