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Change Talk (Client Language In Helping Conversations) Ep 6 – Change Talk (Client Language In Helping Conversations)

Talking To Change - A Motivational Interviewing Podcast

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Are You Looking for Desire?

A desire change talk would be something like, i want my life to be different. When a person is ambivolent about changing they have both of that kind of language within them. They have changed talk and then what we call sustained talk, which is the other side the coin. Both those kinds of language will come forward naturally in an emmi session. If you are in a really coercive environment, you might suppress change talk because or you might suppress sustain talk because you're responding to the environment around you. For example, if you're in jail ah, you may not give a lot of change talk to when you're meeting with your therapist because you're feeling pretty coerced and unhappy

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