Providing engineers with OARS and EARS: Effects of a skills-based vocational training in Motivational Interviewing for engineers in higher education

Purpose-Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a vocational communication skill from the helping professions. Verbal skills in MI are summarized under the acronyms OARS and EARS (open-ended questions/elaborating, affirmations, reflections, and summaries). The purpose of this paper is to outline how MI pr...

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Main Authors: Klonek, Florian, Kauffeld, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69788