Motivational Interviewing - Ten Stages and Processes

Ten Stages and Processes

1. Consciousness-Raising—increasing awareness through information, education, and personal feedback about the healthy behavior.
2. Dramatic Relief—feeling fear, anxiety, or worry because of the unhealthy behavior, or feeling inspiration and hope when they hear about how people are able to change to healthy behaviors.
3. Self-Reevaluation—realizing that the healthy behavior is an important part of who they are and want to be.
4. Environmental Reevaluation—realizing how their unhealthy behavior affects others and how they could have more positive effects by changing.
5. Social Liberation—realizing that society is more supportive of the healthy behavior.
6. Self-Liberation—believing in one’s ability to change and making commitments and re-commitments to act on that belief.
7. Helping Relationships—finding people who are supportive of their change.
8. Counter-Conditioning—substituting healthy ways of acting and thinking for unhealthy ways.
9. Reinforcement Management—increasing the rewards that come from positive behavior and reducing those that come from negative behavior.
10. Stimulus Control—using reminders and cues that encourage healthy behavior as substitutes for those that encourage the unhealthy behavior.