Article by C. Bohrman, E. Hipple, A. Hall, J. Tennille, J. Sneed & A. Drellos on 7/5/2025
Abstract
This article emerged from a Third space or a DreamSpace composed of students, trainers and scholar-activists thinking about how Motivational Interviewing (MI), an intervention that helps individuals make desired changes, can fit with the process of dismantling oppressive social and economic (or socioeconomic) structures. We provide an overview of MI as well as how and why the use of the term “resistance” is no longer a commonly used term. We question whether “resistance,” reconceptualized from a psycho-dynamics process to a socio-political one, might be brought back to MI. We pose a series of questions for readers to meditate on, offering some of our own insights from our personal and professional experiences. We end with further questions for the reader to ponder, maybe in their own communities, as they think about how resistance might look in their own practices.