Posted: April 24th, 2025

Human Resource Management HUMAN RESOURCES WEEK 8 ASSIGNMENT

Using Targeted Questions to Evoke Change Talk  

In this week’s Discussion, you had an opportunity to practice evoking change talk from the service user in the case study you were assigned in Week 2 to help them move beyond ambivalence. For this Assignment, you will have another opportunity to practice evoking change talk. This time, you will practice using the DARN CAT acronym to generate targeted questions to evoke change talk.

Resources

• Walden University, LLC. (2020). Hart CityLinks to an external site. [Interactive media]. Walden University Canvas. https://waldenu.instructure.comBe sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources. 
• Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.   

  Chapter 11, “Offering Information and Advice” (pp. 191–202)
  Chapter 12, “Supporting Persistence” (pp. 203–212)
  Chapter 13, “Planting Seeds” (pp. 214–228)
  Chapter 14, “Responding to Sustain Talk and Discord” (pp. 229–252)
  Chapter 15, “Practicing Well” (pp. 253–264) 

• Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2023). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.   

  Chapter 11, “Offering Information and Advice” (pp. 191–202)
  Chapter 12, “Supporting Persistence” (pp. 203–212)
  Chapter 13, “Planting Seeds” (pp. 214–228)
  Chapter 14, “Responding to Sustain Talk and Discord” (pp. 229–252)
  Chapter 15, “Practicing Well” (pp. 253–264)

  WEEKLY RESOURCES

To Prepare

• Review the Learning Resources on evoking change talk. Pay particular attention to the DARN CAT acronym for generating questions to elicit change talk.
• Read the service users’ statements in the Targeting Questions: Evoking document in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider how you would use the DARN CAT acronym to generate questions to evoke change talk in response to each service user’s statement.

By Day 7

Submit a 1- to 2-page paper that addresses the following:

• Write two targeted questions to evoke change in response to each of the statements using the Targeting Questions: Evoking document.

As in Chapters 5and 8, this is an opportunity to practice forming good questions, but this time targeting clients in evok­
ing. Once again, you will read aclient statement and then form two different questions. Because change talk requires a
specific target behavior, and this information is not presented in these statements, you will have to infer. You may also
have to use a reflection to get into your question. This is always good practice, so feel free to do so. You can use all the
different types of question you learned in this chapter and in the prior one (“Recognizing Change and Sustain Talk”).
Feel free to thumb back through the chapters to refresh your memory.

Later, we will return to these prompts as we discuss developing other sorts of questions for the planning phase.

1. I think the child needs to understand that you’re the parent, and that he or she needs to mind you. Too often I see
kids acting sassy, and I won’t put up with that disrespect.

Question A:

Question B:

2. I don’t get what we are supposed to be doing here.

Question A:

Question B:

3. I love my kids, but sometimes they push me to the edge, and then I do things I shouldn’t.

Question A:

Question B:

(cont.)

From Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook, Second Edition, by David B. Rosengren. Copyright © 2018 The Guilford Press.
Permission to photocopy this material is granted to purchasers of this book for personal use or use with individual clients (see copyright page for details).
Purchasers can download a version of this material (see the box at the end of the table of contents).

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4. I am really tired of dealing with all of this crap. I just can’t do it anymore. Something has to change.

Question A:

Question B:

5. My problem is my wife and her constant complaints.

Question A:

Question B:

**BONUS**

6. Here we go again: same old stuff, just anew version.

Question A:

Question B:

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