In this episode of Talking to Change: A Motivational Interviewing Podcast, we had the pleasure of sitting down with David Rosengren, PhD, President and CEO of the Prevention Research Institute (https://www.primeforlife.org/) in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. David is also the author of Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (2nd edition) (https://www.guilford.com/books/Building-Motivational-Interviewing-Skills/David-Rosengren/9781462532063). In this episode, David discusses a variety of topics relating to the teaching and learning of Motivational Interviewing. The following is an indexed list of topics:

     0:00 – Opening/introduction

     2:00 – David’s early experiences learning and training MI

    6:15 – Origins of Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook

   10:30 – Demonstrating the ‘Reflection Batting Practice’ exercise

   18:15 – Developing a personalised training style

   24:00 – Mastery vs. Fluency

   29:00 – Interrogative Elaboration

   32:45 – The Growth Mindset

   40:40 – The Myth of Masked Practice

   48:00 – The Branching Script

   55:30 – Positive Psychology and Grit

  58:40 – Closing

Glenn, Seb & David Halloween Night New Orleans 2018

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