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An Overview of Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change

Relias

Motivational Interviewing is an important technique in the field of behavior change and therapeutic communication. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, motivational interviewing has evolved into a widely adopted approach for facilitating positive changes in individuals. What is motivational interviewing?

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Children waiting up to six weeks to see social workers, as authority downgraded to ‘inadequate’

Community Care

Most assessments had a clear purpose and rationale for intervention, with direct work providing valuable insights into children’s experiences, and their needs being well-considered by plans that also included their wishes and feelings. .” Practice better beyond the MASH.

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The Stages of Change Model and How To Implement It

Relias

To learn how to apply this model to your work, we’ll review the five stages of change, what interventions look like at each stage, and some techniques to incorporate this model into your practice. Most interventions here involve preventing relapses into negative behavior or helping clients deal with the psychological toll of relapse.

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Councils face insolvency without rules curbing children’s care costs, warns ADCS head

Community Care

John Pearce told Community Care that these should include a calculated fair cost for care and rules on provider behaviour, in an interview at this year’s National Children and Adult Services Conference (NCASC).

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Significant disparities in council support for kinship carers revealed by survey

Community Care

The Foundations study, based on survey responses from 80 councils (52% of the total), interviews with staff from 35 of these and round table discussions with 31 kinship carers, examined how far authorities provided support to the different types of kinship carer.

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Council’s ‘relentless drive’ to improve children’s experiences helps it shed ‘inadequate’ tag

Community Care

The council came under government intervention in 2019 after an inspection found children were not being protected, cases were being “inappropriately closed” and leaders did not understand the extent of the failings. IROs raised concerns when needed, but managers’ inconsistent responses hindered the effectiveness of the process.

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‘Inadequate’ councils make progress in latest Ofsted visits

Community Care

Their progress is held back by wide-ranging inconsistencies in the quality and impact of assessments, plans, interventions and management oversight and supervision.” But it said that data for return home interviews needed to improve to accurately reflect the work undertaken with children.