Elizabeth Hall (Western University) Don Morrow (Western University)
Motivational Interviewing-via-Co-Active Life Coaching (MI-via-CALC) was investigated as a possible behaviour intervention for adolescents who experience stressors in their lives. The strength of this constructivist grounded theory (CGT) study was its potential to explain what eventuated from the adolescents’ experience of MI-via-CALC. Of considerable import among the findings is that the coaching relationship is critical to the adolescent throughout the processes of MI-via-CALC. “Getting it done” emphasized the process that developed from this CGT study, and best related the four major concepts, “empowering self,” “shoring up purpose,” “creating connections” and “envisioning the future.” The knowledge developed from this study delivers implications for health promotion, education, parenting, further research, and counselling.
Adolescents, constructivist grounded theory, intrinsic motivation, motivational interviewing-via-co-active life coaching, self-determination
Accepted for publication: 15 January 2018 Published online: 1 February 2018
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