The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare

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Motivational Interviewing (MI) - Implementation Information

Scientific Rating: 1
"Well-Supported by Research Evidence"

Pre-implementation Assessments to be given to organizations or providers in order to measure organizational or individual readiness:

  • There are no pre-implementation assessments to evaluate readiness; however for MI it is not about "readiness" so much as the skill level from which the person is starting in learning MI.

Implementation Tools for the program (e.g., implementation guides or manuals):

  • The Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA-STEP) package is a collection of tools for mentoring counselors and other clinicians in the use of MI skills during clinical assessments. MIA-STEP was produced by The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network under a cooperative agreement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This document can be found at http://motivationalinterview.org/library/MIA-STEP.pdf.

Fidelity measures:

  • The Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) is an instrument that yields feedback that can be used to increase clinical skill in the practice of motivational interviewing. The MITI measures how well or how poorly a practitioner is using MI and can be found on http://casaa.unm.edu/download/miti.pdf.
  • Additional information about MI fidelity measures is available at: www.usm.edu/MIConsortium/Resources.html.