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OARS: Client-Centered Listening Skills. The next learning task is proficiency with basic active listening skills, such as asking open questions (O), providing affirmations (A),

listening reflectively (R), and summarizing (S). These skills form the basis of the first phase of MI. The basic skills, known together as OARS, form the basis for successfully implementing motivational interviewing.

To get the process started you have already assessed your own listening skills, so after reviewing the resources and examples you will analyze with the OARS technique used in some Motivational Interviewing Videos and submit your notes as well as your recommendations for improvement, providing some additional examples of open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening techniques and summaries you could implement.

Please submit your written response by midnight on Saturday and must include a title page and a reference page if citations are included in your response using APA format.

**This is a Complete/Incomplete assignment: Full credit will be awarded for successfully submitted responses; zero credit will be given if not submitted.

Task 1: Watch the following example of Motivational Interviewing with a busy, resistant client and write a complete response including the following:

• What did the interviewer do to resolve the client’s issue?
• What techniques could you use to increase the client’s motivation to participate?
• What additional open questions, affirmations, reflective listening techniques and summaries would you implement?

Task 2: Watch the following example of a “good” Motivational Interview and write a complete response including the following:

• What strong techniques can you identify in the interview?
• What actions can you identify that created distance between the worker and the client?
• What techniques could you use to increase the client’s motivation to participate?
• What additional open questions, affirmations, reflective listening techniques and summaries would you implement to improve the interaction?
• For this assignment, you will receive an originality report from Turnitin.