Description: Learn to use a school-based motivational interview to motivate students to achieve academic goals. Don't learn how to become a motivational speaker.
The Student Checkup The Student Checkup is a semi-structured school-based motivational interview designed to help adolescents adopt academic enabling behaviors (e.g., participation in class). Ultimately, the Student Checkup is a tool to be used along side of skillful Motivational Interviewing (MI) practices. In 2011, Strait and Colleagues published the first randomized experimental trial on the Student Checkup, originally known as “Report Card Coaching”, which was followed by a replication and two experimen
On this website, you can download the Student Checkup Manual for free, access links to other school-based MI websites, and learn about MI training opportunities.
School-Based Motivational Interviewing Motivational Interviewing is a brief client-centered counseling style used to motivate adolescents and adults to change risky behaviors and adopt healthy or productive behaviors (Miller & Rollnick, 2012). School-Based Motivational Interviewing (S BMI) is specific type of MI used in the school setting to either motivate teachers or parents to adopt positive behavioral support strategies or to motivate students to adopt academic enabling behaviors (e.g., participation in