title: Motivational interviewing in health care settings. Opportunities and limitations.
abstract: Motivational interviewing (MI) has been well studied in specialist settings. There has been considerable interest in applying MI to community health care settings. Such settings represent a significant departure from the more traditional, specialist settings in which MI has been developed and tested. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of MI and to identify and discuss the key issues that are likely to arise when adapting this approach to health care and public health settings. This paper provides an overview of important issues to consider in adapting an effective counseling strategy to new settings, and is intended to begin a dialogue about the use of MI in community health care settings.
authors.affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Adult Oncology, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Behavior Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. karen_emmons@dfci.harvard.edu
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Emmons
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rollnick
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States