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Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems

• Edited by Hal Arkowitz, Henny A. Westra, William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick

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• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 354
• Published by: Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 31st December 2007
• ISBN: 978-1-59385-585-7

About the Book

Since the publication of Miller and Rollnick's classic Motivational Interviewing, MI has become hugely popular as a tool for facilitating many different kinds of positive behavior change. MI is increasingly being used to help individuals mobilize their energy, commitment, and personal resources for addressing a wide range of mental health concerns. This cutting-edge book brings together leading experts to describe novel MI applications in the treatment of anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicidal behavior, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, gambling addictions, schizophrenia, and dual diagnoses. Also addressed are MI approaches in the criminal justice system. Each chapter provides a concise overview of the disorder or population under discussion; describes how MI has been integrated with standard treatment approaches; illustrates the nuts and bolts of intervention, using vivid clinical examples; and reviews the empirical evidence base.

Reviews

'This excellent book is essential reading for therapists and students interested in MI. Expert practitioners offer a step-by-step guide to MI with people who may have any of a wide range of mental health problems, and who hesitate to accept help. Valuable vignettes and therapist-patient dialogues illustrate how to manage various clinical scenarios with skill and sensitivity. The chapters also succinctly review MI research for each type of problem under consideration.' - Isaac Marks, Professor Emeritus, King's College Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK

'Are any of your patients stuck? Read this book. Motivational interviewing has brought the crucial issue of motivation - particularly motivation for change - back to the center of treatment where it belongs. This wonderful book gives ways to work with ambivalence about change in treating people with many problems and disorders. It is easy to read and highly appropriate for beginners as well as experienced practitioners.' - Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

'This is the book I've been waiting for! It details encouraging results from use of motivational interviewing (MI) - a brief intervention with well-documented effectiveness with substance abusers - for treating patients with a range of other conditions. Clinicians who want to enhance their therapeutic effectiveness should read this book and consider whether and how MI might enable them to better help patients achieve their therapeutic goals.' - Peter E. Nathan, PhD, University of Iowa Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Public Health, University of Iowa, USA

'A terrific book for all therapists who seek a positive, respectful, and collaborative approach for helping clients move toward positive change. MI represents a way of being with clients, rather than another school of therapy, making it a useful alternative or adjunct to other models when the going gets difficult.' - Carol M. Anderson, PhD, Western Psychiatric Institute and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA

Table of Contents

Arkowitz, Miller, Learning, Applying, and Extending Motivational Interviewing. Westra, Dozois, Integrating Motivational Interviewing into the Treatment of Anxiety. Murphy, Enhancing Combat Veterans’ Motivation to Change Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Other Problem Behaviors. Tolin, Maltby, Motivating Treatment-refusing Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Zuckoff, Swartz, Grote, Motivational Interviewing as a Prelude to Psychotherapy of Depression. Arkowitz, Burke, Motivational Interviewing as an Integrative Framework for the Treatment of Depression. Zerler, Motivational Interviewing and Suicidality. Treasure, Schmidt, Motivational Interviewing in the Management of Eating Disorders. Hodgins, Diskin, Motivational Interviewing and the Treatment of Problem and Pathological Gambling. McCracken, Corrigan, Motivational Interviewing for Medication Adherence in Individuals with Schizophrenia. Martino, Moyers, Motivational Interviewing with Dually Diagnosed Patients. Farbring, Johnson, Motivational Interviewing in the Correctional System: An Attempt to Implement Motivational Interviewing in Criminal Justice. Arkowitz, Miller, Westra, Rollnick, Motivational Interviewing in the Treatment of Psychological Problems: Conclusions and Future Directions.

About the Author(s)

Edited by Hal Arkowitz, PhD, University of Arizona, USA; Henny A. Westra, PhD, York University, Canada; William R. Miller, PhD, University of New Mexico, USA and Stephen Rollnick, PhD, Cardiff University, UK

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