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- Title
Child Risk and Parental Resistance: Can Motivational Interviewing Improve the Practice of Child and Family Social Workers in Working with Parental Alcohol Misuse?
- Authors
Forrester, Donald; McCambridge, Jim; Waissbein, Clara; Emlyn-Jones, Rhoda; Rollnick, Stephen
- Abstract
Motivational Interviewing (Ml) is a client-centred, directive counselling method. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a two-day workshop in Ml for forty social workers in changing self-reported practice over a three-month period, the levels of skills achieved, and factors associated with acquired skills, including the impact of post-workshop supervision. The focus of training was alcohol misuse but participants were encouraged to explore the use of MI with other issues. A multi-method pre and post-design was used, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data and employing an embedded randomized controlled trial of the impact of supervision. The two-day workshop had a modest positive impact on evaluations of simulated practice, on some measures of attitudes to working with problem drinkers and in qualitative accounts of practice. Despite this, three months post-workshop, workers generally had not reached a skilful level of MI practice as measured in ratings of an interview with a simulated client. Offer of post-workshop supervision had little impact on skill, with take-up being low. There was a significant difference between participants in the two workshops, despite identical programmes and trainers. Qualitative data suggested that participants had found the training useful and many reported a positive impact on their practice.
- Subjects
ALCOHOLISM; MOTIVATIONAL interviewing; CHILD care; FAMILY relationships of people with alcoholism; CHILDREN of people with alcoholism; FAMILY services; SOCIAL work with people with alcoholism
- Publication
British Journal of Social Work, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 7, p1302
- ISSN
0045-3102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjsw/bcl394