title: Motivational interviews as goal assessment for persons with psychiatric disability.
abstract: A necessary first step in the psychosocial treatment of persons with severe mental illness is helping them identify their goals. Unfortunately, goal assessment is often viewed as a categorical process in which individuals list needs for which they require services. Motivational interviews provide a more sophisticated approach in which persons specify the costs and benefits to each of the needs in the list. Benefits define the reasons why a person should pursue a goal; costs define barriers to achieving that goal. The basic mechanisms for understanding and implementing motivational interviews are summarized. Ways to circumvent barriers to motivational interviews are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, USA. p-corrigan@uchicago.edu
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: McCracken
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Holmes
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D012008:Recurrence; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012720:Severity of Illness Index