Special Populations or Settings

This section features information on the adaptation of Motivational Interviewing to special populations and problems, including criminal justice, polysbustance users, adolescents, medical patients, and so on. It is currently under development.

Substance Abuse Related Populations or Settings:

Pros and Cons: Reflections on Motivational Interviewing in Correctional Settings (William R. Miller; reprinted from the MINUET)

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents Presenting for Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment (Lauren Aubrey Lawendowski, 1998)

Motivational Enhancement Therapy with Drug Abusers (Miller, W. R., 1995) [A clinical research guide for therapists in applying Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) with drug abusers. This document is an adaptation and extension on the Project MATCH MET therapist manual.]

Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Adolescent Cannabis Users (Susan Sampl, Ronald Kadden)

Other Populations or Settings:

Eating Disorders (Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt and Gill Todd)

The effect of a brief MI-related intervention upon the high-risk sexual practices of HIV+ men (by Douglass Fisher and Rosemary Ryan)

Emergency Room Intervention for Adolescents (Nancy Barnett)

Adolescents Engaging In Risky Behaviors (Chris Dunn)

Safe Water in the Developing World (Angelica K. Thevos)

Application of motivational interviewing to prenatal smoking cessation: training and implementation issues (Mary M Velasquez, Jacklyn Hecht, Virginia P Quinn, Karen M Emmons, Carlo C DiClemente, Patricia Dolan-Mullen) (pdf link to article in Tobacco Control, 2000)

Removing Barriers: Dual Diagnosis Treatment and Motivational Interviewing (pdf file) (Kathleen Sciacca, Professional Counselor, 12:41-46)

In cooperation with the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), William R. Miller, Ph.D., and Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D.

Revised1/03