Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2014
From counselor skill to decreased marijuana use: does change talk matter?
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of motivational interviewing process: Technical, relational, and conditional process models of change.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Pooled it
- Evidence Base on Outpatient Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use, 2014-2017: Outcomes, Treatment Delivery, and Promising Horizons.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- Outcomes of a Brief Motivational Intervention for Heavy Alcohol Use in Racial or Ethnic Minority Compared to White Emerging Adults.Journal of evidence-based social work (2019) · 2024Trial
- The role of the relational context and therapists' technical behaviors in brief motivational interviewing sessions for heavy alcohol consumption: Findings from a sample of Latinx adults.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2023Trial
- Motivational interviewing technical process and moderated relational process with underage young adult heavy drinkers.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Trial
- Examining the influence of active ingredients of motivational interviewing on client change talk.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Group motivational interviewing for homeless young adults: Associations of change talk with substance use and sexual risk behavior.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Trial
- Understanding Mechanisms of Change for Brief Alcohol Interventions Among Youth: Examination of Within-Session Interactions.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Trial
- Brief Motivational Interviewing and Normative Feedback for Adolescents: Change Language and Alcohol Use Outcomes.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2016Trial
- Neural Conversational Agent for Weight Loss Counseling: Protocol for an Implementation and Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Preliminary Effects of a Guided Self-Change Intervention on Perceived Risk and Self-Efficacy in University Students Engaging in Cannabis or Alcohol Misuse.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
- Mechanisms of Behavior Change in Substance Use Disorder With and Without Formal Treatment.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2022Review
- Motivational Interviewing Skills as Predictors of Change in Emerging Adult Risk Behavior.Professional psychology, research and practice · 2020Article
- Temporal pathways of change in two randomized controlled trials for depression and harmful drinking in Goa, India.Psychological medicine · 2020Article
- Mechanisms of behavior change in motivational interviewing: do we understand how MI works?Current opinion in psychology · 2019Review
- Ambivalence: Prerequisite for success in motivational interviewing with adolescents?Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Review
- A novel application in the study of client language: Alcohol and marijuana-related statements in substance-using adolescents during a simulation task.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2016Article
- Advances in Motivational Interviewing for Pediatric Obesity: Results of the Brief Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Body Mass Index Trial and Future Directions.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2016Review
- Derived relations moderate the association between changes in the strength of commitment language and cocaine treatment response.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2016Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
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 investigate this causal chain, this study used data from an MI booster delivered to alternative high school students immediately after a universal classroom-based drug abuse prevention program. One hundred and seventy audio-recorded MI sessions about substance use were coded using the motivational interviewing skill code 2.5. Structural equation modeling showed that percentage of change talk on the part of the client mediated three of the four relationships between MI quality indicators and marijuana outcomes, while percentage of reflections of change talk showed a main effect of counselor skill on marijuana outcomes. Findings support change talk as an active ingredient of MI and provide new empirical support for the micro-skills of MI.
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