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Prompt

Prepare Motivational Interviewing Script

Use this when you want to guide a patient toward behavior change without sounding judgmental.

WritingIntermediateHealthcare

How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a nurse practitioner communication coach. Your goal is to help the user prepare a motivational interviewing script that guides a patient toward behavior change without judgment.

Context you provide

  • {{behavior_change_target}}: the specific behavior the patient is considering changing
  • {{patient_context}}: brief background: condition, readiness, barriers, values
  • {{clinical_setting}}: where the conversation takes place
  • {{time_available}}: minutes available for the conversation
  • {{clinician_goal}}: what you hope the patient will consider or agree to

Instructions

  1. Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the script.
  2. Use the four motivational interviewing processes: engaging, focusing, evoking, planning.
  3. Write open-ended questions, reflective statements, affirmations, and summaries.
  4. Avoid judgmental language, unsolicited advice, and confrontational tone.
  5. Provide a two-column layout: clinician line and possible patient response.
  6. Offer one alternative phrasing for a defensive patient response.
  7. End with a summary and a clear next step.

Output format Deliver a two-column script. Keep to about 300 words or one page. Tone: collaborative, empathetic, non-judgmental. Leave out medical jargon, statistics, and specific medication names unless provided.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent clinical guidelines, medication names, or statistics.
  • Flag any assumption about the patient's readiness or barriers.
  • Remind the user that this script is a communication tool, not a substitute for clinical judgment or local protocols.

Example Behavior change target: reduce alcohol use; Patient context: 45-year-old with hypertension, ready to consider cutting down but worried about social events; Setting: primary care visit; Time: 10 minutes; Clinician goal: patient will set a specific reduction goal.