These pages provide background information on the practice of Motivational Interviewing as well as Dr. Miller's recent thoughts on a motivational understanding of addiction and the basic findings that may need to be accounted for and incorporated into any theory of motivational interviewing.

What is MI? (by Stephen Rollnick and William R. Miller; reprinted from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy)

How it Began... (by William R. Miller; reprinted from Addictive Behaviors)

Philosophy of MI

MI Principles

MI "Traps"

Interaction Techniques

Strategies

A Motivational Understanding of Addiction (by William R. Miller; reprinted from the MINUET)

Toward a Theory of MI (by William R. Miller; reprinted from the MINUET)

L'Entrevue motivationelle: une approche novatrice de la toxicomanie (Rossignol, 1999)

In cooperation with the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), William R. Miller, Ph.D., and Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D.

Revised 1/03