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Chapter 7: An example of a Structured Motivational Intervention for Families, Students, and Schools: The Family Check-Up

DOI:

10.1891/9780826148780.0007

Abstract

This chapter describes the rationale for using structured Check-Ups and for delivering effective feedback in a motivational interviewing style. It focuses on the Family Check-Up (FCU) given that it involves all three groups targeted in prior chapters: parents, teachers, and students. Delivering feedback using FCU approach facilitates the sorts of interactions with parents that promote more collaborative, open, optimistic, and productive encounters. Check-Ups align with the stages of MI: engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning. It involves two or three meetings ranging from 20 minutes to an hour each. The first meeting involves a structured interview and an ecological assessment involving self and other reports of strengths and areas of concern related to the target problem; and the second involves delivering personalized feedback that is used to develop goals and an action plan. MI is the foundation for each meeting—MI principles guide the structure of the interview and feedback meetings.