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Editor: Hal Arkowitz
Editor: Henny A. Westra
Editor: William R. Miller
Editor: Stephen Rollnick
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-18
ISBN: 1593855850
Number of pages: 354
Publisher: The Guilford Press

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Book Review: Not What I Was Expecting
Summary: 3 Stars

This book provides an excellent overview of:

1) What Motivational Interviewing is
2) When its use is appropriate (always, in their opinion -- but I'm sold on that)
3) How it (favorably) compares to other methods of therapy

What is doesn't give you is a strong foundation for how to use the technique. I was hoping for this, so I was disappointed.

I guess you can sort of figure it out by reading the book -- but if using Motivational Interviewing is your goal, you're probably better off with a book that offers a more "how-to" approach.

Also, within the example chapters on different diagnoses, the authors included a few too many pages on background information, such as prevalence data. I felt the degree to which this tangential information was addressed was off-topic. I would have preferred for the focus to have stayed on Motivational Interviewing. I would have learned more that way.

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