Stone, Catherine (2013) A Discursive Examination of Motivational Interviewing. Honours thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
Abstract
Motivation Interview (MI) is a collaborative, client-centred and directive method of psychotherapy for enhancing a person’s inner motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence. Few studies that have examined MI in qualitative research therefore, the aim of this exploratory study was to examine how MI is practiced in real life psychological consultation using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (CA) method. The purpose of this research was to analysis how a competent MI counsellor was able to move a client from ambivalence to commitment to change using MI techniques. This study examined the sequential turn-by-turn nature of discourse in terms of the actions performed in adjacent fashion by the participants. The finding indicated that the MI consultation was sequentially organised and in an adjacent manner. Thus, indicating that the speakers collaborated in an orderly and coherent fashion throughout the conversation. The application of formulation/reformulationsagreement adjacency pairs was used to co-construct the meaning of ambivalence that was mutually accepted by both parties. The results indicated that the counsellor used a directive and client-centred approach by applying adjacency pair actions to demonstrate how he was able to move the client from ambivalence to commitment to change. Limitations of this study included the lack of opportunity to examine the MI consultation with Jefferson Notation. Additionally, the video recording that was available was not used in this study. Recommendations for future studies would be to use Jefferson transcripts and video recording to obtain a clearer and more detailed analysis of the conversational interaction between the speakers.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Honours) |
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| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Psychology, Counselling and Community (1 Jul 2013 - 31 Dec 2014) |
| Supervisors: | Steve Christensen |
| Qualification: | Bachelor of Science (Honours) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2025 01:01 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2025 01:01 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | motivational interview, ambivalence, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, formulations |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 1799 Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences > 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5299 Other psychology > 529999 Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52792 |
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