MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING TRAINING - PRE-POST TEST
Name (please print):________________________________________________________________
Agency/Unit: _____________________________________________________________________
Date: __________________________________________________________________________
1)
Motivational Interviewing is a ____________, practitioner-directed method for enhancing
___________ motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence
a. consequence-driven; low
b. superior; non-existent
c. famous; outward
d. client-centered; intrinsic
2)
What are the two or three (for a bonus) of the core principles of MI?
1.
2.
3.
3)
The clinical techniques most strongly associated with empathic or active listening is:
a. Affirmations
b. Summarizations
c. Open questions
d. ‘Magic questions’
e. Reflections
4) Name three different kinds of reflections useful when handling resistance
1.
2.
3.
5) For persons beginning to confront a need to change a significant maladaptive behavior pattern,
ambivalence is a very normal state:
True ______ or False _______?
6) What are the four fundamental MI skills?
a) ______________________________________________________________________
b) ______________________________________________________________________
c) _______________________________________________________________________
d) _______________________________________________________________________
7) Which of the following words is not used to describe the Spirit of Motivational Interviewing?
a. Autonomy
b. Expertise
c. Evocation
d. Collaboration
MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING TRAINING- POST TEST (cont’d)
8) The MI approach suggests that practitioners never use more than _____________ questions
in a row to avoid the “Question and _____________ Trap.”
9) Circle all of the questions below that are open-ended:
a. “Have you had dinner?”
b. “What do you like about drinking alcohol?”
c. “Whose idea was it for you to come here?”
d. “Can you tell me more about that?”
e. “How has your life changed since then?”
f. “Why is your family so important to you?”
10) Resistance is a signal for the clinician to:
a. List reasons for change
b. Use confrontation to break through resistance
c. Ask for a time-out
d. Respond differently
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Post- Test 8/25/08