Ever tried to get someone else to change? It’s so freaking hard! How do we help people do things they want to do, but aren’t really doing (yet)? Dr. Gill Strait is an expert on this, and today he gets a reverse interview from his doctoral student, Qi Te, on his favorite topic besides Widespread Panic: Motivational Interviewing. (This is PART 1 of a multi-part series on MI with Gill and Qi Te.)

Qi Te is a first-year PsyD student at UH Clear Lake. He worked as a high school counselor in Beijing and had a professional background in student leadership development. In his spare time, Qite loves to sweat doing crossfit and washing dishes while listening to his favorite podcasts. His goal this year is to finish his thesis and to find out who makes the best BBQ in Houston.

Honorable Mentions:

• MI book by Miller and Rollnick Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Edition (Applications of Motivational Interviewing)https://www.amazon.com/dp/1609182278/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_A1Z9AW9GF5T7K3MYG2WX 
• Paper we published on cognitive appropriateness of using MI with adolescents https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1754730X.2012.736789 
• Student checkup https://studentcheckup.org 
• Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way https://www.amazon.com/dp/1611807247/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_C2TP35TGPM5PDYEV80RW 
• The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Agehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1623860199/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_15X9GT58XB67SEYMGA77 
• Cultural implications for MI (eg Guilt vs shame in Eastern Asian thought)
• Spirit Vegetables

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Welcome to The Psychologists Podcast, where we talk about all things psychology through a very personal lens.

Gill Strait PhD and Julia Strait PhD are both Licensed Psychologists (TX) and Licensed Specialists in School Psychology (LSSPs, TX). They are alumni of The University of South Carolina School Psychology Doctoral Program (Go Gamecocks).

Gill is a teacher, researcher, and supervisor at a university graduate psychology training program.

Julia is owner and therapist at Ocean Therapy in Houston, TX, offering telehealth therapy to young adults in their 20s and 30s who are struggling with anxiety. Check it out here: https://www.oceantherapy.net/