Discuss the communication strategies. Be sure to comment on motivational interviewing and DBT.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a form of psychological intervention that involves the therapist's collaborating with the client to promote change. Rather than imposing change, the therapist works to help the client evoke his or her own motivations for change. The therapist also tries to evoke the client's sources of ambivalence and to roll with resistance rather than challenging it directly. The model involves collaboration rather than confrontation, and the idea is that the client has his or her own motivations that he or she can use to change psychologically. The client works towards self-actualization by identifying his or her own motivations for change.
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder, in which clients learn to tolerate distress. MI can be used with DBT in a process that involves the therapist listening to and working with the client in an empathic way. The therapist does not work to confront the client, but instead helps the client identify his or her own forms of motivation to work toward change. The therapist works to move the client towards self-actualization.
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Miller, W. R., Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change. New York: The Guilford Press.