You don’t like when things change unexpectedly?

(NOTE: Make sure to have completed the Miller & Rollnick textbook readings for Module 3: Week 3 and Module 4: Week 4 as per the Course Schedule before posting in this module’s discussion!)
This discussion wants to help you learn about MI’s concept of OARS. Take a few minutes and watch the Youtube video where OARS is being explained and then demonstrated called Motivational Interviewing: Core Clinician Skills- Introducing OARS.
(Links to an external site.)In a good paragraph each, give two sentences from the video demonstrating:
Open-ended Questions
Affirming
Reflections
Summarizing
Since reflecting is a primary skill on which MI is based and often seems to be where some students struggle, below is an example of reflecting (excerpted from Rosengren’s 2009 edition of Building Motivational Interviewing Skills, pp. 48-49):
I am an organized person.
You mean that . . . you like to have things orderly.
It sounds like you are saying . . . you tend to rely on routines.
Do you mean that . . . you don’t like when things change unexpectedly?
I think I hear you saying . . . you think logically.
Now practice coming up with at least three reflections for each of these client comments (please place your reflections in bold so I can easily see them):
Conflict makes me uncomfortable.
I am generally a happy person.
I let people bother me more than I should.
Next, spend time sharing with your classmates:
What steps can you take to ensure that your reflections do not become one of Thomas Gordon’s “roadblocks” (Miller & Rollnick, ch. 5)?
Discuss the differences between a simple reflection and a complex reflection. Give an example of each from the above Youtube video.
Because reflective listening can be challenging to practice at first, it is a learnable skill. Give an example of how you were able to try it with a real person this week. This could be a spouse, child, co-worker, acquaintance, etc. (no names or personal information!). Closeout your post with a “plan of action” of how you can implement reflecting more into your day-to-day life when communicating with others.
This is the book that my professor has us read chapters 8-11
Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2013). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Guilford Press. ISBN: 9781609182274.