Motivational Enhancement as a Brief Intervention for College Student Drinkers

Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Goal-Based Approaches to Assessment and Intervention with Addiction and Other Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 531-547

  Blume, Arthur W ^a   Marlatt, G Alan ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral interventions seeming to motivate change, challenging positive alcohol expectancies; Discrepancy between expected and actual drinking outcomes motivating behavioral changes; Group interventions, used effectively motivating change among college student drinkers; Individualized interventions, successful motivation to change, among students abusing alcohol; Motivational enhancement a brief intervention for college student drinkers; Peer pressures and socially sanctioned drinking behavior cues about normative behavior from peers; Psychological factors, influencing motivation to change alcohol use positive versus negative expectancies; Reducing drinking risks, incorporating real time interventions technological means into drinking events; Strategies, physical exercise, teaching new meditation or distressing tolerance skills; Technological advances, new methods of delivering programs motivating drinking changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886199672     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979952.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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