PCO4310 - Motivational Interviewing Exam Questions
And Accurate Answers
The process in Motivational Interviewing
a. moves linearly from engagement to focusing to evoking to planning to change
b. can move back and forth between engaging, focusing, evoking, planning, and change
c. is moving from engaging to focusing to evoking to planning, with each step being
completed and never used again in treatment
d. fluctuates but always begins with evoking change - ANSWER b. can move back and
forth between engaging, focusing, evoking, planning, and change
Dr. Miller says that if the counselor takes the side of arguing for health (for a change)
then ...
a. the client will agree due to the counselors position
b. it leaves the client to argue against change
c. the client will get angry and leave therapy every time
d. the client will start to consider changing - ANSWER b. it leaves the client to argue
against change
From the video, Dr. Miller says that motivational interviewing is about
a. putting something new into the client
b. drawing something out of the client
c. moving the person along in the direction of change
d. all of the above
e. B and C only - ANSWER b. drawing something out of the client
Dr. Miller conceptualizes addiction as
a. being in a place of ambivalence in which the person both wants the substance but
doesn't want the negative consequences
b. a disease
c. a moral failing
And Accurate Answers
The process in Motivational Interviewing
a. moves linearly from engagement to focusing to evoking to planning to change
b. can move back and forth between engaging, focusing, evoking, planning, and change
c. is moving from engaging to focusing to evoking to planning, with each step being
completed and never used again in treatment
d. fluctuates but always begins with evoking change - ANSWER b. can move back and
forth between engaging, focusing, evoking, planning, and change
Dr. Miller says that if the counselor takes the side of arguing for health (for a change)
then ...
a. the client will agree due to the counselors position
b. it leaves the client to argue against change
c. the client will get angry and leave therapy every time
d. the client will start to consider changing - ANSWER b. it leaves the client to argue
against change
From the video, Dr. Miller says that motivational interviewing is about
a. putting something new into the client
b. drawing something out of the client
c. moving the person along in the direction of change
d. all of the above
e. B and C only - ANSWER b. drawing something out of the client
Dr. Miller conceptualizes addiction as
a. being in a place of ambivalence in which the person both wants the substance but
doesn't want the negative consequences
b. a disease
c. a moral failing
