Motivational interviewing in alcohol treatment for underage college drinkers
Posted on July 23, 2013
Motivational interviewing is a method of alcohol treatment which has the goal of establishing intrinsic motivation to change within the client through examining discrepancies between goals and behavior, and ambivalence about these discrepancies. For example, an individual may know that he or she has drinking problems but may tend to ignore the extent to which these problems are interfering with a desirable life. Motivational interviewing helps the client to see the problem in a new light and to overcome ambivalence about change. Read on to learn more about the impact of motivational interviewing on underage college drinkers. You may also be interested in: Why Do College Students Drink so Much?
Studying Motivational Interviewing and Underage College Drinkers
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