Department
Psychology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2011
Abstract
Client language during Motivational Interviewing interventions is an important predictor of drinking outcomes, but there are inconsistencies in the literature regarding what aspects of client language are most predictive. We characterized the structure of client language by factor analyzing frequency counts of several categories of client speech. The results provide limited support for a model proposed by Miller et al. (2006) and Amrhein et al. (2003) but with some important differences. While Amrhein et al. (2003) found that only increasing strength in client commitment language predicted behavior change, the current study revealed that client language preparatory to commitment predicted drinking outcomes.
Journal Title
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
Journal ISSN
0893-164X
Volume
25
Issue
3
First Page
439
Last Page
445
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1037/a0023129
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