The video clips shown in this resource portray health professional students who are learning the skills of Motivational Interviewing and Brief Intervention. The video clips selected for this resource demonstrate good-practice examples of counselling techniques that can help to portray empathy within the interaction.
Supporting videos:
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The video clips show examples of the key areas of the counselling interaction where portraying empathy is especially important: Non-verbal Communication, Open Questions, Clarification Probing, Assessment, Coping Strategy, Reflection, Reinforcement, Re-statement, Next Appointment and Specific Advice (in this case Drinking Guidelines)
Background:
A project, completed in 2010, to produce a web-accessible training resource for motivational interviewing (MI) and brief intervention (BI) counselling skills designed to highlight the nature of the interpersonal interactions and in particular the portrayal of empathy.
A project undertaken by University of Otago with input from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Resources collated by Helen Moriarty, Mark Huthwaite and Peter Gallagher – University of Otago, and Barry Jackson – Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)