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Integrating Medication Prescribing and Psychotherapy

March 19, 2021

Carla Marienfeld, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego. Director of the UCSD Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship, co-editor of Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice, and editor of Absolute Addiction Psychiatry Review. Dr. Marienfeld has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Dr. Marienfeld shares strategies of how to turn short clinical appointments meant “only” for medication management into rich therapeutic interactions. She outlines specific techniques drawn from Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that you can start implementing in office visits right away

A Timely Look at Community Reinforcement for Seniors With Unhealthy Alcohol Use

October 21, 2020

Jesse Koskey, MD.

Jesse Koskey, MD. Dr. Koskey has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Interventions that combat isolation may be particularly important in the context of current physical distancing recommendations. This randomized trial tested whether community reinforcement paired with motivational enhancement therapy impacted outcomes among seniors with alcohol use disorder.

Motivational Interviewing With Teens About Weed

October 3, 2019

Elizabeth D’Amico, PhD

Elizabeth D’Amico, PhD

Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)

Dr. D’Amico has disclosed that she has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Child psychiatrists can learn and use motivational interviewing to help teens across a range of substance use disorders. In this QA we cover the efficacy, training and implementation of outpatient motivational interviewing for marijuana and other substance use with teens.

Primer: Evidence-Based Psychosocial Interventions for Substance Use Disorders

October 2, 2019

Psychosocial interventions for substance use disorders include drug counseling, medical management, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, contingency management, the community reinforcement approach, and twelve-step facilitation

Tips for Better Motivational Interviewing

June 27, 2019

In The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report, David Rosengren, PhD, President of the Prevention Research Institute, gives the following tips on how to conduct motivational interviewing:Be curious, not an expert.Training and expertise can get in the way of our really hearing the client’s story. For example, a client says, “I don’t...