Honors Program Theses
Award/Availability
Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Oksana Matvienko
Abstract
Motivational interviewing is a client-centered counseling style that aims to help reduce ambivalence and create a behavior change. It is typically done in a one-on-one setting. The purpose of this research was to test a group educational session based on motivational interviewing strategies, for its effectiveness in evoking an individualized behavior changes in a group of college students. The session utilized several techniques specifically chosen to be most effective in reducing ambivalence and helping students discover their own individual solution to a problem in order to more successfully make a health related change in their lives.
Year of Submission
2012
Department
School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
5-2012
Object Description
1 PDF file (56 pages)
Copyright
©Hannah Jo Culbertson
Recommended Citation
Culbertson, Hannah Jo, "Making a Change: Motivational Interviewing in a College Group Setting" (2012). Honors Program Theses. 734.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/734
Comments
If you are the rightful copyright holder of this thesis and wish to have it removed from the Open Access Collection, please submit a request to scholarworks@uni.edu and include clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.