27 Mar Which of the following is a therapeutic technique to facilitate a health behavior change in a 28-year-old male with substance use disorder who is in denial regarding the severity of his habit?

I need a 275 response for a peer question and topic use 2 references with doi attached within past 5 years

Chapter 3 Question 9

“Which of the following is a therapeutic technique to facilitate a health behavior change in a 28-year-old male with substance use disorder who is in denial regarding the severity of his habit?”

Solution-focused therapy (my answer)

Motivational interviewing (correct answer)

Motivational interviewing is a technique used by healthcare professionals to help motivate uncertain patients to change their behavior. A recent meta-analysis showed that motivational interviewing was an effective way to promote behavioral change and compliance with treatment among patients with various types of health conditions in comparison to control groups, which received either standard treatment or no treatment (Bischof et al., 2021). The techniques used in motivational interviewing help people to use their own internal values to inspire them to resolve their ambivalence about changing dysfunctional behavior. It emphasizes autonomy. It does not instruct a person to change, it encourages people to find their own reasons to change. One technique used is reinforcement of motivational statements. This is done by helping people identify their own desires and reasons for changing their behavior (Arbuckle et al., 2020). Interestingly, the technique of motivational interviewing is not used exclusively in mental health care, it is used in many settings, including in the corporate sector, for quality control purposes.

Solution-focused therapy is different than motivational interviewing, although both are intended to facilitate behavioral modification. Solution-focused therapy is based on the belief that change can be initiated in the present, without the need to understand the past, or the reason the behavior exists in the first place (Jerome et al., 2023). The premise is to evaluate what has been an effective solution previously, developing goals to outline the behavior to be changed, and then implementing a plan to achieve those goals. This seems different to me than motivational interviewing, where the solution really comes from within the individual, whereas in solution-focused therapy, the change is initiated externally.