The authors’ stated goal of this book is to provide the experienced practitioner with a guide to having a productive conversation about behavior change with adolescents and young adults using the spirit and skills of MI. They note that the normal developmental processes of adolescence regularly affect the young person’s motivations, decisions, and goals, and present a basic introduction to MI as applied in the context of those developmental processes. They also discuss ethical concerns specific to MI with young people, and provide a selection of starting points for “learning to learn” MI independently or with a peer learning group. Overall, the book is geared toward newcomers to MI.
Within the past decade, research on Motivational Interviewing with adolescents and young adults has “blossomed,” according to the authors, and an edited selection of “side trips” comprising about half the volume presents a clinically-oriented overview of the findings. Each chapter in this section of the book focuses on a particular problem (e.g., smoking) or setting (e.g., criminal justice), and includes subsections detailing the scope of the problem, the rationale for MI, application of MI spirit and strategies, and research implications.
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