Category: Podcast

Glenn and Sebastian welcome Dr. Allan Zuckoff to the podcast. Allan is Vice President for Clinical Program Development at Vital Decisions, a company that provides MI-based telephonic advance care planning …

In this episode of Talking to Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, we had the pleasure of sitting down with David Rosengren, PhD, President and CEO of the Prevention Research Institute …

In the latest instalment of Talking to Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, we were joined by Tim Apodaca, licensed psychologist and associate professor of paediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas …

In this episode we welcome Majella Greene, a registered social worker with master’s degrees in applied positive psychology and social work policy and research. Majella, who hails from London, UK, …

In episode eight we talk with Dee-Dee Stout, clinician, trainer, and author on the intersection between Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Trauma Informed Practice (TIP). Dee-Dee discusses how not focusing on …

In episode seven the co-founder of Motivational Interviewing Steve Rollnick describes the development and future directions of MI and explores his journey, with Bill Miller, of translating MI from a …

In the sixth episode of Talking to Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, Glenn and Sebastian welcome Theresa Moyers, PhD, associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Terri shares her ideas on the importance of change talk within MI based on her extensive experiences as a clinician and researcher on the treatment of addictive behaviours. The following is an indexed list of topics that Glenn, Sebastian, and Terri discuss:
     0:00 – Opening/introduction
     2:00 – What is change talk and why does it matter?
   14:30 – Desire change talk
   16:30 – Sustain talk
   19:00 – Other elements of change talk
   23:30 – Is change talk all about behaviour?
   27:00 – Change talk: Smoke or fire?
   34:00 – Talking one’s self into change
   37:00 – The clinician as influencer: “The waitress test”
   45:00 – Client language within an empathic relationship
   55:00 – Learning MI
   59:00 – What’s on your mind lately? Dog training
1:06:00 – Closing

In the fifth episode of Talking to Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, Glenn and Sebastian welcome Chris Wagner, PhD, associate professor, department vice-chair, and licensed clinical psychologist in the department of rehabilitation counseling at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Chris shares his insights into the work of Carl Rogers and how his theories and method of client-centered counseling helped shape the practice of MI. The following is an indexed list of topics that Glenn, Sebastian, and Chris discuss:
Minute – topic
0 – Opening/introduction
8 – Rogers’ radical departure from the expert model of helping
14 – Spirit of person-centered interactions
19 – Rogers’ 6 core conditions
28 – “Inside the bubble” – Incongruence and acceptance
36 – Rogers’ core conditions – necessary & sufficient, but efficient?
41 – Growth perspective
49 – Emotional emancipation
56 – Positive discrepancy
1:00 – Wrap up: MI in groups; Proactive orientation; Beyond discrete behavior change
1:10 – What’s on your mind lately? MI in Dentistry, updating MI groups model, Organic MI training