Systematic Motivational Counseling in Groups: Promoting Therapeutic Change through Client Interaction

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 303-327

  Fuhrmann, Arno ^a   Schroer, Bernhard M ^b   de Jong Meyer, Renate ^c  

^a Alexianer Christophorus Klinik GmbH   (Germany)

^b Psychologisches Institut I ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activating clients' current concerns clients, personal benefits from taking part; Approach, based on principles of motivational enhancement support for goal striving; Clarifying clients' goals, entailing components beyond simply making them explicit; Empirical evidence supporting validity of SMC G; Inducing client interaction through motivational structure feedback; Promoting clients' chances for taking action operationalizing goal states, constructing a step by step action plan; Storch and Krause's Z rcher Ressourcen Modell (ZRM) coaching process in personnel psychology; Systematic motivational counseling in groups (SMC G) treatment of alcohol addiction; Systematic Motivational Counseling in Groups promoting therapeutic change through client interaction; Therapist guiding clients through this step, examples of translations of concerns into goals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886172779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979952.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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