Purpose Personalized and interactive text messaging interventions may increase participant
engagement; yet, how to design messages that retain adolescent attention and positively …

Collective motivational interviewing (CMI) is a novelty motivational approach which
optimises the motivational interviewing (MI) for individuals from collectivistic cultures. While …

Abstract More than 39 million (12.3%) people in the US live in poverty. Health plans have an
invested interest in the impact of the social determinants of health and poverty on health …

Motivational interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based strategy for communicating with patients
about behavior change. Although there is strong empirical evidence linking “MI-consistent” …

Simply telling patients what to do with respect to medical recommendations or lifestyle
changes often does not have the desired impact, contributing to frustration for both patients …

Older adolescent and young adult (AYA) males have traditionally been left out/ignored by
our healthcare system which usually focuses on pregnancy prevention from a female …

Many healthcare-related interactions take place in circumstances where the patient seeks
assistance, and the patient and medical trainee agree about the patient's need for treatment …

HIV psychiatry is an important aspect of psychiatry and is represented in every psychiatric
specialty such as consultation-liaison psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry …

Medical education has taken a decided turn toward the “flipped classroom,” in which in-class
lectures are de-emphasized and engaged learning is promoted. The time has also come to …

This chapter provides a review of parental physical punishment of children, which has been
shown to be associated with abuse of children and several negative developmental …