This is old news by now, but Motivational Interviewing and Motivational Enhancement Therapy have received the NREPP seal of approval as evidence-based practices in substance abuse treatment.
The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers. The purpose of the registry is to assist the public in identifying approaches to preventing and treating mental and/or substance use disorders that have been scientifically tested and that can be readily disseminated to the field. NREPP is a program of the US Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
NREPP review of Motivational Interviewing
NREPP review of Motivational Enhancement Therapy
Tags: addiction, MET, MI, research, treatment retention, websites
Motivating Offenders to Change is a readable text approaching the problem of treatment engagement in correctional settings from a scholarly perspective. It may be a useful resource for students and those involved in program planning and evaluation. According to the editors of the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, the goal of the series is to “offer authoritative and critical information through which forensic clinical practice can develop.” The volumes in the series are intentionally not practice manuals or “cookbooks.” This edited text is consistent with the aims of the series and succeeds at providing an overview of numerous approaches to engaging a notoriously difficult population in treatment.
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Tags: assessment, corrections, ethics, mental health, research, stages of change, treatment retention
Originally published in 1997, this free download from NIDA contains a mix of research findings and clinical strategies for improving treatment retention.
NIDA – Research Monographs – Monograph 165: Beyond the Therapeutic Alliance: Keeping the Drug-Dependent Individual in Treatment
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