Toolkit of Motivational Skills:
Encouraging and Supporting Change in Individuals
2nd Edition, 2008
How do you motivate someone to change a pattern of behaviour? This is an issue faced daily by professionals working in healthcare and
criminal justice systems. Motivational interviewing is a style of communication developed for working with substance abuse, but found to
be effective for work with a variety of people who are struggling with the idea of behaviour change.
This workbook is a complete guide to
the motivational approach for any professional who needs to help others to change.
- a complete guide to motivational interviewing, a style of structured communication that has been found effective for creating behaviour change across a range of context
- provides the theory, research and principles of a motivational approach, along with strategies for skills development and exercises for working with a range of clients
- essential reading for professionals in healthcare and criminal justice systems, who face a daily challenge of motivating reluctant clients to change patterns of behaviou
- the first edition was developed for the probation service; this open market edition is updated and expanded to be relevant to anyone helping others to change
Authored by:
Catherine Fuller, has 10 years experience as a manager in the probation service, and now works as an independent trainer for a variety of criminal justice and
youth agencies in the UK and Europe.
Phil Taylor (Malvern, UK) has 30 years experience in the probation service and has worked as an independent consultant and trainer for the last 8 years. Together they
wrote the original Toolkit of Motivational Skills for the UK Probation Service in 2003.
ISBN 9780470516584 / Paperback / 306 Pages / Wiley-Blackwell