Application of Motivational Interviewing to Specific Client Groups

This report provides an in-depth analysis of motivational interviewing (MI) and its application to specific client characteristics, including ethnicity, gender, and workplace dynamics. The author, a clinical psychologist, addresses the importance of MI in a corporate setting, particularly for employees from diverse ethnic backgrounds who may face mental health challenges and demotivation. The report emphasizes the need for tailored counseling approaches, such as assigning a female counselor for female staff and considering the emotional needs of different groups. It also covers strategies for dealing with organizational culture, work pressure, and negative feedback, with recommendations for both employees and superiors. The report concludes with a call to action for the implementation of motivational interviews to foster a healthy and productive work environment.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Dear management,
I would like to inform you that I want to conduct a motivational interview for some
specific employees of your organisation. Motivational Interviewing is a counselling approach
which is designed by two clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick. This
strategy is totally client centric. It can be applied in many conditions like obesity treatment,
improvement of behaviours, improvement of diet and many others. Many counselors use this
procedure to provide motivation to the specific clients. It may affect the treatment of the client
(Charles et al., 2020). This approach helps to improve the behaviour of the clients and it leads to
the effective output to the client. It affects the characteristics of the specific client. It is
recommended that psychological counselor should focus on the behaviour of his or her client. It
may hamper the treatment procedure.
In your company, there are lots of employees who belong to the ethnic categories. They
need the treatment for their mental health treatment. As a counselor, I shall be very careful while
implementing the strategy of motivational interview. It is seen that they are harassed by the other
employees within an organisation. As a result of that, they become demotivated. For that reason,
counseling is necessary. It will help the ethnic employees of your organisation to motive in their
work. It helps to improve the production of your organisation. It will create a friendly
environment within the organisation premises. It will provide the equal rights to all the
employees within the organisation.
In your organisation, male and female staffs are identified properly and they should make
separate groups. Female staffs are very sentimental. For that reason, motivational interviewing is
conducted in such a manner that they should not be disappointed. Keeping this in mind, I shall

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appoint a female counseling specialist so that she can conduct the interview in an efficient
manner. On the other hand, male staffs are not so much sentimental. For that reason, counselor
can do the confrontation to the male employees of your organisation. A research says that 15-
20% is facing mental disorder in their professional career. In my opinion, male staffs from your
organisation are also facing same issues. For that reason, I shall arrange a special counseling for
the male employees of your organisation. It will help them to get rid off from the mental disorder
and lead a very happy life. This counseling will help them to give more concentration on their
work, so that they can grow professionally.
Sometimes employees are getting distressed because of the organisational culture and
work pressure. In this Motivational Interview, my target is to provide some strategies for dealing
with the organisational culture and work pressures. In this particular session, I shall guide the
employees regarding several procedure of staying calm and relaxed during the work pressure.
During the work pressure, the most important part is to stay focused towards organisational
goals. It helps them to complete their regular responsibilities. Staying positive is the most
important part during the work pressure. Positivity is the only way to achieve the success in
professional career. I shall teach several strategies to stay positive in tough situations in the
professional career. It may happen that, staffs are not able to cope up with the culture of the
organisation. In this motivational interviewing, I shall guide the employees how to deal with the
organisational culture. It is very important part for an employee in his or her corporate life.
Taking responsibility is also a big deal in professional life. It is a part of the professional life of a
person. In counseling, there are lots of strategies for taking the responsibility in an efficient
manner. In this motivational interviewing, I shall guide the employees how to take
responsibilities, so that, they can make their beautiful professional career. I shall also guide the

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employees how to get out from their comfort zone and take risks in their professional career.
Sometimes employees are demotivated because they are getting negative feedback from their
superior. But it is a part of their professional career. In this motivational interviewing, I shall
guide the employees how to stay motivated even though their superior is providing negative
feedback. For this particular case, I shall take one motivational interview session for the
superiors of the organisation, so that, they can learn about the procedure of becoming polite
while talking with their sub-ordinates.
At the end, it is my humble request to you to arrange the motivational interview as soon
as possible so that I can motivate them and provide them a healthy professional career.
Thanking you with anticipation.
Yours sincerely,
Clinical psychologist.