Therapist–Client Interactions in Motivational Interviewing: The Effect of Therapists’ Utterances on Client Change Talk | Zendy

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Therapist–Client Interactions in Motivational Interviewing: The Effect of Therapists’ Utterances on Client Change Talk

Author(s) -

Michael E. Brown,

Ciara Masterson,

Gary Latchford,

Gillian Tober

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

alcohol and alcoholism

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1464-3502

pISSN - 0735-0414

DOI - 10.1093/alcalc/agy027

Subject(s) - motivational interviewing , utterance , psychology , interview , scope (computer science) , applied psychology , therapeutic relationship , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , intervention (counseling) , computer science , artificial intelligence , psychiatry , political science , law , programming language

Motivational Interviewing is an effective treatment for a range of problematic behaviours, however, previous studies have revealed substantial variability in the effectiveness of therapists. Curiously, the specific behaviours which contribute to positive outcomes have rarely been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate hypothesised relationships between therapists' utterances and clients' change talk by analysing interactions sampled from the United Kingdom Alcohol Treatment Trial (UKATT).

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