Motivational interviewing is a directive, non-confrontational intervention to promote behavior change. The current study examined therapist behaviors during a successful brief motivational interviewing intervention for physically aggressive college dating couples (Woodin & O'Leary, 2010). Forty-five minute motivational interviews with each partner were videotaped and coded using the Motivationa...

Research has uncovered that positive affect broadens cognitive categorization. The motivational dimensional model, however, posits that positive affect is not a unitary construct with only one cognitive consequence. Instead, this model puts forth that there are different positive affects varying in approach motivational intensity. According to this model, only positive affects lower in motivati...

For the last 50 years, research investigating the effect of emotions on scope of cognitive processing was based on models proposing that affective valence determined cognitive scope. More recently, our motivational intensity model suggests that this past work had confounded valence with motivational intensity. Research derived from this model supports the idea that motivational intensity, rathe...

BACKGROUND Reports from research have shown that mental illness has increased dramatically in recent years and is currently one of the biggest problems among Swedish children and adolescents. AIM The aim of this study was to describe how Swedish school nurses experience their work with schoolchildren who have mental illness. METHOD Data were gained by individual interviews with school nurse...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 109 POTENTIAL MOTIVATION AND MOTIVATIONAL ROUSAL ....................... 110 Potential Motivation .............................................................................. 110 Motivational Arousal ............................................................................. 111 EVIDENCE ON TH...

Motivational interviewing (MI) as a counseling approach has gained empirical support for its use in a number of settings and for a variety of behaviors. However, the majority of practitioners trained to use MI have been professionals rather than laypeople. This article presents the rationale, design, and evaluation of an MI-based training for cancer survivors and caregivers to deliver peer supp...

I Individuals face a self-control problem when the attainment of their overriding long-term interests comes at the expense of short-term but influential outcomes. For example, the boredom that is often associated with studying long hours is a price students have to pay in order to attain academic success, and the discomfort that is often associated with diering or undergoing a medical checkup i...

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an increasingly prominent behavioral therapy that draws from and claims to synthesize two American therapeutic traditions long thought to be antithetical-"client-centered" and "directive" approaches. This paper proposes that MI achieves its hallmark "client-centered directiveness" through the aesthetic management of the therapeutic encounter, and more particula...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this investigation was to study the feasibility of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) based on a multicentre fall prevention intervention including exercise with or without motivational interviewing compared to standard care in community-living people 75 years and older. METHOD The feasibility of a three-armed, randomised controlled trial was evaluated according to the f...

Motivated behaviors are often characterized by a high degree of behavioral activation, and work output and organisms frequently make effort-related decisions based upon cost/benefit analyses. Moreover, people with major depression and other disorders often show effort-related motivational symptoms such as anergia, psychomotor retardation, and fatigue. It has been suggested that tasks measuring ...