EquipoiseIs MI without a Target Behavior MI?

William R. Miller

David B. Rosengren

Chris C. Wagner

Allan Zuckoff & Mary Amanda Dew

Second International Conference on Motivational InterviewingStockholm, Sweden

June 7-9, 2010

MI in Equipoise

Oxymoron or New Frontier?

Target Behavior?

“Nothing good ever happened to a target” – Bill Miller, MINT listserv

Equipoise ≠ Absence of Target Behavior It is possible to be in a state of equipoise when a

focused on a specific behavioral choice Stay in my present community or take a job that

requires a move to a new area? (MI2, pp. 93-96) Counselor’s goal is to help the client to resolve

ambivalence without aspiration to achieve one resolution over another