Significant others in substance abusers' change talk during motivational interviewing sessions
in the Finnish probation service
Engelsk titel: Significant others in substance abusers' change talk during motivational interviewing sessions in
the Finnish probation service
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Författare:
Sarpavaara, Harri
Email: harri.sarpavaara@uta.fi
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 45
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15033453
Sammanfattning
AIMS - This article explores the meanings substance-abusing clients attach to family and
friendships during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions in Probation Service. DATA - The analyses
are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 82 MI sessions. This database involves
the first two counseling sessions of 41 client-counselor pairs. Sessions were videotaped in 12
Probation Service offices in Finland between 2007 and 2009. METHODS - The analysis relies on
coding of client's change talk utterances and qualitative semiotic framework. RESULTS - The
meanings of the significant others were diverse from the point of view of the client's motivation:
family appeared as a support for change, an aspiration, a sufferer, or an obstacle to change; and
friendship appeared as an obstacle to change, a surmounted obstacle, a cause to change, or a
support to change. CONCLUSIONS - Significant others and their quality are important and diverse
factors that promote or hinder change in substance abuser' change talk. Thus, it is suggested that the
meaning of significant others should not be overlooked in MI and other substance abuse treatment.