YOUR WORK. YOUR PRACTICE.
Build a shared conversation around the person's concerns, meaningful goals and experience of care.
A care agenda, a missed appointment or a supporter in the room can shape the conversation before it begins. Practice finding out what matters to the person while explaining what your role requires you to address.
Explore a change when it fits the shared focus. You can also practice checking an understanding, clarifying a supporter’s role or responding when advice missed the point. Feedback considers your words within that conversational purpose.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, goal-oriented way of talking that helps people explore and strengthen their own motivation for change. Careful listening, shared focus and respect for choice guide the conversation. These skills also help when the immediate task is to understand a concern, explain information or agree what happens next.
BECOMING WITHIN YOUR WORK
Community mental health includes several professions and support roles. Intentional practice helps you notice how your agenda and experience enter the conversation, invite the person’s priorities and connect your contribution with their participation in community life.
A question to carry into practice
How does this response fit both my role and the life the person wants to lead?
Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA) · Professional association
For rehabilitation and recovery-support roles, explore partnership, self-determination, strengths and participation in community life.
Explore the resources that fit your role, alongside your organization’s guidance and local credentialing requirements. These independent resources are offered for learning; their inclusion does not imply affiliation or endorsement.
CONVERSATIONS YOU CAN PRACTICE
Bring the person's concern and the purpose of the appointment into a shared agenda.
Explore what has made attendance difficult and what the person wants from contact now.
Hear what an activity represents to the person and explore their ideas about returning.
Respond to feedback about your contribution and practice a more fitting next response.
The daily conversation rotates within your field. Additional conversation choices depend on your account's access.
FROM PRACTICE TO YOUR NEXT CONVERSATION
Have a short back-and-forth with a fictional partner. Get specific feedback on your responses, choose something to try next, and return to your saved conversations as you develop.
Consider a moment when your care agenda and the person's priority differed. What helped you understand the difference and decide how to address it together?
Build my practice home →WHY BECOMING MI
Becoming MI connects daily practice with the person and professional you want to become. Try a response, consider feedback, and carry something useful into your next conversation.
Your values, responsibilities and well-being meet in your work. We make room for that whole experience, including the resources and support you need.
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