Effective Psychotherapists with Bill Miller & Terri Moyers

Glenn and Sebastian were honored to have Drs. William R. Miller and Theresa B. Moyers, authors of “Effective Psychotherapists”, on Talking to Change. Dr. Miller is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico where he served as Director of Clinical Training for the doctoral program in clinical psychology and as a Founder and Co-Director of the Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA).  Miller’s publications include over 60 books and 400 articles and chapters.  Fundamentally interested in the psychology of change, he has focused in

Dr. Moyers is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico where she specializes in the treatment of addictive behaviors. Her research program focuses on teaching clinicians to use evidence-based treatments including motivational interviewing in the addictions field as well as identifying active ingredients in motivational interviewing. Dr. Moyers has published more than 30 peer-reviewed publications related to motivational interviewing and has presented it at conferences and workshops in 42 States and 16 countries. Dr. Moyers also trains and competes with her Border Collie in dog agility. She finds it a natural fit and uses motivational interviewing to help dog trainers warm up to positive training methods. 

        0:00 – Opening/introduction 

        5:37 – Bill’s early MI story: The Norway sabbatical and beyond 

      11:00 – Bill and Terri’s story of collaboration through research and writing

      14:45 – Predicting therapy outcomes beyond techniques

      19:40 – Bill and Terri’s most important skill to learn: Empathy and Genuineness

      23:47 – The internal experience and the external skill: How therapists develop both

      30:20 – What not to do and how you can tell

      33:30 – Belief in others matters, both for clients and for therapists

      39:28 – Learning the core characteristics through doing and through feedback      

      51:00 – What Bill and Terri learned from writing the book

      58:20 – How MI changed Bill and Terri and what’s on their horizons

   1:06:29 – End of recording 

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Recent Books:

Miller, W. R., & Moyers, T. B. (2021).  Effective psychotherapists: Clinical skills that improve client outcomes.  New York: Guilford Press.

Miller, W. R., Forcehimes, A. A., & Zweben, A. (2019).  Treating addiction: A guide for professionals (2nd ed.).  New York: Guilford Press.

Miller, W.R. (2018).  Listening well: The art of empathic understanding.  Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock.

Miller, W. R. (2017).  Lovingkindness: Realizing and practicing your true self.  Eugene OR: Wipf & Stock.

Miller, W. R., & Homer, L. K. (2016). Portals: Two lives intertwined by adoption.  Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.

Steinberg, M., & Miller, W. R. (2015).  Motivational interviewing in diabetes care.  New York:  Guilford Press.

Arkowitz, H., Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (Eds.) (2015).  Motivational interviewing in the treatment of psychological problems (2nd ed.).  New York: Guilford Press.

Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S.  (2013). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (3rd ed.).  New York: Guilford Press.

Miller, W. R., & Muñoz, R. F. (2013).  Controlling your drinking (2nd ed.).  New York: Guilford Press.

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