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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stephen_Rollnick > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stephen_Rollnick.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Rollnick > Source revision: 1152106452 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) South African psychologist Part of a series on Psychology Outline History Subfields Basic psychology Abnormal Affective neuroscience Affective science Behavioral genetics Behavioral neuroscience Behaviorism Cognitive/Cognitivism Cognitive neuroscience Social Comparative Cross-cultural Cultural Developmental Differential Ecological Evolutionary Experimental Gestalt Intelligence Mathematical Moral Neuropsychology Perception Personality Psycholinguistics Psychophysiology Quantitative Social Theoretical Applied psychology Anomalistic Applied behavior analysis Art Assessment Aviation Biography of famous people Clinical Coaching Color Community Consumer Counseling Critical Crowd Educational Ergonomics Fashion Feminist Food Forensic police Health History Humanistic Industrial and organizational Legal Media Medical Military Music Occupational health Pastoral Peace and war Political Positive Photography Psychometrics Psychotherapy Religion School Sex differences Space Sport and exercise Suicidology Systems Trading Traffic Concepts Behavior Behavioral engineering Behavioral genetics Behavioral neuroscience Cognition Competence Consciousness Consumer behavior Emotions Feelings Human factors and ergonomics Intelligence Maslow's hierarchy of needs Mental state Mind Psychology of religion Psychometrics Sex differences Terror management theory Lists Counseling topics Disciplines Organizations Outline Psychologists Psychotherapies Research methods Schools of thought Timeline Topics Psychology portal v t e **Stephen Rollnick** is Honorary Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Alongside [William R Miller](/source/William_R_Miller_(psychologist)), he developed many of the founding principles of [motivational interviewing](/source/Motivational_interviewing). ## Biography Professor Stephen Rollnick grew up in [Cape Town](/source/Cape_Town), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) and completed a Masters training in research methods in [Strathclyde](/source/Strathclyde) [University](/source/University) in [Glasgow](/source/Glasgow) (1978) and a professional training in clinical [psychology](/source/Psychology) in [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff) (1983). Since then he has lived and worked there as a clinical psychologist in the [National Health Service](/source/National_Health_Service) and more recently, as a member of the Department of General Practice. His early experience as a trainee nurse in a hospital addiction treatment setting led to an interest in constructive methods for helping people resolve difficult behaviour change problems. This has taken him through a close collaboration with Professor [William R Miller](/source/William_R_Miller_(psychologist)) on the subject of [motivational interviewing](/source/Motivational_interviewing), a Doctoral thesis (1993) on counselling for excessive drinkers, to more recent work on consultations about lifestyle and medication use in healthcare practice. Through collaboration with Professor Chris Butler and Dr Paul Kinnersley he is now studying broader communication challenges like the [antibiotic](/source/Antibiotic) consultation, and the development and evaluation of methods for helping undergraduates and qualified practitioners change their communication and consulting behaviour. ## Development of motivational interviewing Rollnick developed many fundamental concepts of motivational interviewing with Miller in their 1991 book.[1] Rollnick used his experience in the field of addiction treatment to find ways in which healthcare professionals could combat ambivalence regarding change. The technique has since been adopted by many healthcare professionals in their practice. ## Books - *Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition: Helping People Change*, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-60918-227-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-60918-227-4). - *Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior*, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59385-612-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59385-612-0). - *Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems*, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-59385-585-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59385-585-7). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Miller, W. R. & Rollnick, S. (1991) Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behaviour. New York: Guilford Press ## Sources - [Steve Rollnick motivational interviewing resources](http://www.stephenrollnick.com/) - [Motivational Interviewing Trainer Network](http://www.motivationalinterview.org/) - Miller, W.R. and Rollnick, S. Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change. NY: Guilford Press, 2002. - Rollnick, Miller and Butler: Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewing). Guilford Press, 2008. - [Professor Stephen Rollnick research profile on Cardiff University website](https://web.archive.org/web/20140803004417/http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/person/prof-stephen-rollnick/) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Japan Czech Republic Portugal Netherlands Norway Latvia Korea Sweden Poland Israel Catalonia Academics CiNii People Trove DDB Other IdRef Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Stephen Rollnick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Rollnick) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Rollnick?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.