Personal Values Card Sort for Client Priorities

Personal Values Card Sort is a collaborative Motivational Interviewing card-sorting tool for practitioners and clients. It helps identify and prioritize the client’s personal values so change conversations can connect to the client’s own meaning, choices, or treatment direction.

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Tool guide

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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.

Card Sort, Not Questionnaire

The interaction should preserve sorting and prioritization of cards rather than becoming a linear form.

Client Prioritization

The final profile reflects the client’s choices. Practitioner notes about treatment or change relevance are stored separately.

Important Boundary

The tool does not invent values cards, generate personality conclusions, or prescribe what the client should choose.

Can the demo invent sample values cards?

No. Specific card content is unresolved unless sourced, so the demo must not invent card labels or categories.

What does the practitioner save?

The practitioner saves the Personal Values Card Sort tool itself, plus supported setup such as selected sourced card set and optional current focus when available.

Is this a personality assessment?

No. It produces a client-prioritized values profile and does not interpret personality or moral meaning.

Can values profiles be repeated over time?

Yes. Completed profiles can persist for later reference, and repeated sorts are most comparable when the same card set is used.