Motivational Interviewing: Reflecting on ethical decisions in MI

This article is the seventh and final one in this series for TCP, which is drawn from the Motivational Interviewing (MI) approach. In the previous papers I have summarised briefly the principles of Motivational Interviewing (Passmore, 2011a). In five further papers for the techniques section I have offered a perspective on the application of ‘Reflective listening’ (Passmore 2011b), the ‘Balance Sheet’ technique (Passmore, 2011c), a ‘Typical day’ (Passmore, 2012a),‘Recognising change talk’ (Passmore 2012b) and ‘Agenda Mapping’ (Passmore, 2013). In this paper I will briefly return to reflecting on the MI process and specifically the question of ethics within the approach as we draw this series to a close.

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