(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.

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 ofBuilding 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.
• What steps can you take toensurethat your reflections do not become one of Thomas Gordon's "roadblocks" (Miller &Rollnick, ch. 5)?
• Discuss the differences between asimplereflection and acomplexreflection. Give an example of each from the aboveYoutubevideo.
• Because reflective listening can be challenging to practice at first, it is alearnableskill. 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.