Background Minority adolescents are at highest risk for obesity and extreme obesity; yet,
there are few clinical trials targeting African American adolescents with obesity. Purpose The …

Objective: The goal of this study was to assess the effects of training primary care providers
(PCPs) to use Motivational Interviewing (MI) when treating depressed patients on providers' …

Objectives To examine the effects of specialized probation and recovery management
checkups (RMCs) on participation in substance use treatment, substance use, HIV risk …

Monitoring fidelity to psychosocial treatments is critical to dissemination, process and
outcome research, and internal validity in efficacy trials. However, the costs required to …

Youth with disabilities face both internal and external barriers to career development and
often experience poor post school outcomes in comparison to their nondisabled peers. The …

Families in the child welfare (CW) system who cannot be engaged in services are at high
risk of negative outcomes. As motivational interviewing (MI) has been shown to improve …

Introduction Although substance use is common among people in the US criminal justice
system, treatment initiation remains an ongoing problem. This study assessed the reliability …

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Recent meta‐analyses of motivational interviewing (MI)
for reducing risky alcohol use in young people have reported modest effects. Few studies …

Background Because parental recognition of overweight in young children is poor, we need
to determine how best to inform parents that their child is overweight in a way that enhances …

Objective: To evaluate the effect of providing choice of treatment alternatives to patients who
fail to engage in or drop out of intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) for substance …