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Action

Talk through your mixed feelings about changing

Motivational-interviewing style: explore ambivalence and draw out your own reasons to change.

A young man on a bench winds one thread from a big tangled ball of yarn onto a spool while a woman beside him listens.

Studies (1)

  1. Paper

    Talks about mixed feelings toward change helped students put off schoolwork less
    TestedHelped

    Students who talked through mixed feelings about change and made a plan put off schoolwork less than the other group.

    Small trial, groups not picked at random of 40 students at a university counselling centre in Iran · vs students who got no treatment · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable

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