Motivational Interviewing Counseling ApproachImagine you are tasked with conducting a counseling intake interview with a 19 year old college student who is feeling sad, unmotivated, and worried about his grades. It is the students first semester at school, and he is finding that he has gone from being an A student in high school to a B- student in college. He has also moved 500 miles away from his hometown to attend school.This weeks lecture discussed a number of counseling approaches (cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic, and behavioral), that can be used to guide and understand an interview.Which approach would you use to guide this intake interview? Explain why you think this approach is a good choice for this particular interview. Also develop at least 5 questions for your interview and explain how the questions fit with the approach you chose.You may use any of the approaches discussed in this weeks lecture or you may also use one from:McMaster, F., & Resnicow, K. (2012). Motivational Interviewing: moving from why to how with autonomy support. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physica
l Activity, 9(19).As appropriate, cite the online course, the textbook, and other credible, scholarly sources to substantiate the points you are making. Apply APA standards to for writing and citations to your work.Answer preview
..McMaster and Resnicow (2012) define Motivational Interviewing as a person-centered counseling approach guiding to elicit and strengthen personal provocation to change. I would use the Motivational Interviewing Counseling approach with a nineteen-year-old student who is feeling sad, unmotivated and worried about his degrading grades. Motivational Interviewing is good for such to help a client in such a situation because it is empathetic, egalitarian and non-judgmental. Teenagers often develop a negative attitude towards therapy when they feel like it is fig mental. Motivational Interviewing avoids that feeling by use of shared decision making, reflective listening, and eliciting change talk. Unlike many other counseling approaches, Motivational Interviewing does not heavily rely on therapists insight and directives. Instead, the
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