For many clients and families, MI needs to be threaded through the entire clinical encounter: assessment, feedback, treatment planning, and the ongoing work of therapy itself.

The idea that willpower is a finite mental fuel, burned up by each act of self-discipline and replenished by rest or sugar, is one of the most widely believed myths in psychology.

When the person sitting across from you looks different from that sample, the diagnostic accuracy you learned about in training starts to drift.