OARS brings together open questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries. The skills support focused exploration of the person’s own reasons and strengths, while their timing and function matter more than completing a checklist. Vocabulary or technique counts alone cannot establish competent, ethical MI.
- FamilyTool
- Category of its source unitIntervention Methods & Practices
- DomainPersuasion & Argument
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.