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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The Relationship Between Empathy and Change Talk
Research supports the idea that empathy a in m i sessions actually predicts drinking outcomes, to me, is very powerful. You can easily imagine the therapeutic value of empathy and relationships between the therapist and the client withouta thinking about change talk. For me, i cannot imagine the value of change talk in the absence of a relationship with the client. I think it's not just the mechanistic features of change talk that help. It's the fact that it emerges spontaneously in an interaction that you're having with another person, and is public. And so ampathy is in the territory as well.
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