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Motivation Change in Therapeutic Community Residential Treatment
Author(s) -
Morgen Keith,
Kressel David
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of addictions and offender counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 2161-1874
pISSN - 1055-3835
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1874.2010.tb00058.x
Subject(s) - therapeutic community , psychology , latent growth modeling , behavior change , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , social psychology
Latent growth curve analysis was used to assess motivation change across 3 time points for 120 therapeutic community residents. Models included the time‐in‐variant predictor of readiness for treatment, which significantly predicted initial treatment motivation but not the rate of motivation change over time.