TABLE 3.

Examples of elicited interest in change or self-efficacy talk

Counselor–patient statement
1	C: It sounds like you’re saying it would take a lot of effort to go to the specialist. P: Yes. It would take a lot of time, but it would be worth it if it’s a good doctor.
2	C: I see that it is important that someone help you . . . remind you of your appointment in the morning. Your wife is not that person and your father—you don’t want to worry him. P: He knows that there is a problem but not exactly what. I can tell him, “Father I’m starting a preventive treatment and I want to give you the dates of every appointment I have, and you will remind me.” That won’t be a problem.
3	C: Let’s try and think. Do you think there is a way for you to solve this [transportation] problem? P: I need to just sit down and talk to my family doctor. I need to talk to him about the location of treatment. Even if I have to take a bus, I don’t think I’ll have to go every day or every other day because it’s just one shot a week. I could get a month’s supply of pills.
4	C: How do you get away from the [drugs] in the neighborhood. P: I just go somewhere. I have good friends who don’t do drugs . . . I go with them.