Any type of behavioral change is an effortful process. Thus, the process of behavioral
therapy, where clients seek to change maladaptive behavioral patterns, requires high‐level …

The need for sustained skill development and quality assurance when executing behavioral
interventions is best demonstrated in the empirical evolution of Motivational Interviewing …

The definitive text on motivational interviewing (MI) written by and for social workers has now
been updated and expanded with 60% new material, including a revised conceptual …

Alexithymia is related to a higher severity of substance use disorders (SUD); however, few
longitudinal studies have been performed on how alexithymia impacts treatment outcomes …

Background Web-based lifestyle interventions at the workplace have the potential to
promote health and work productivity. However, the sustainability of effects is often small …

Abstract Treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) is often in the context of biobehavioural
interventions, consisting of medication for OUD (for example, methadone and …

Background: Through evaluations of training programs, systematic reviews, and meta-
analyses, advances in identifying best practices for disseminating motivational interviewing …

Given the workforce shortage of adequately trained behavioral health professionals, schools
of social work are ideally positioned to teach empirically supported treatments for preventing …

As many as 80% of the nearly five million adults under community supervision (ie, probation,
parole) are substance involved; however, treatment utilization is low. Using a multi-site …

Objective We sought to understand the content validity of Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a
concept and the relative emphasis of specific MI aspects by assessing MI adherence …