This toolkit from All Rise’s Justice for Vets translates the foundational components of Motivational Interviewing (MI) into the veterans treatment court setting. The toolkit is divided into a narrative and a portable, quick-reference bench card and is applicable to everyone working on a veterans treatment court team.

MI Toolkit

The toolkit demonstrates how its concepts can be applied in veterans treatment court using dialogue, examples, and veteran-centric case studies. The toolkit is divided into four sections describing the spirit, skills, strategies, and change-planning components necessary to adopt MI in your program.

MI Bench Card

The complementary bench card contains tips and prompts for using the core MI skills, strategies, and change planning in staffing, court sessions, and meetings with participants and families.

Authors:

Jennifer G. Wyatt, L.M.H.C., M.A.C., S.U.D.P.
Margaret Soukup, M.A.

Date: 2024