From counselor skill to decreased marijuana use: Does change talk matter?

E Barnett, TB Moyers, S Sussman, C Smith… - Journal of substance …, 2014 - Elsevier
Client language about change, or change talk, is hypothesized to mediate the relationship
between counselor fidelity in motivational interviewing (MI) and drug use outcomes. To …

Behavioral interventions for individuals dually diagnosed with a severe mental illness and a substance use disorder

CM Bradizza, PR Stasiewicz, KH Dermen - Current addiction reports, 2014 - Springer
The prevalence of substance abuse among severely mentally ill (SMI) individuals with a
schizophrenia-spectrum or bipolar disorder is about three times the rate of the general …

Computer-enhanced interventions for drug use and HIV risk in the emergency room: preliminary results on psychological precursors of behavior change

EE Bonar, MA Walton, RM Cunningham… - Journal of substance …, 2014 - Elsevier
This article describes process data from a randomized controlled trial among 781 adults
recruited in the emergency department who reported recent drug use and were randomized …

[PDF][PDF] Advancing methods for reliably assessing motivational interviewing fidelity using the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code

S Narayanan, M Steyvers, DC Atkins - 2014 - mstrep.s3.amazonaws.com
The current paper presents novel methods for collecting MISC data and accurately
assessing reliability of behavior codes at the level of the utterance. The MISC 2.1 was used …