This book is written specifically for healthcare professionals. It presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health—from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation to medication adherence.

A must-read for anyone interested in using Motivational Interviewing (MI) to facilitate change with individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions. Miller and Rollnick explain how to use MI to work through ambivalence to facilitate change. They present detailed guidelines for using their approach.

The Readiness Ruler is a helpful tool to support the use of Motivational Interviewing (MI), the evidence-based treatment. MI is a conversational approach designed to help people discover their own interest in considering and/or making a change in their lives. Carry the Readiness Ruler in your pocket and use its zero-to-10 scales to begin or continue the conversation about change.