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Continuing Education in Motivational Interviewing for Addiction Counselors: Reducing the Research‐to‐Practice Gap
Author(s) -
Doumas Diana M.,
Miller Raissa M.,
Esp Susan
Publication year - 2019
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/jaoc.12055
Subject(s) - motivational interviewing , addiction , psychology , interview , continuing education , addictive behavior , clinical psychology , self efficacy , medical education , psychotherapist , psychiatry , medicine , intervention (counseling) , political science , law
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of continuing education training in motivational interviewing (MI) for addiction counselors. Participants reported a significant increase in counseling self‐efficacy, and 87.5% reported increasing MI use in their practice. Only 3.8%, however, participated in posttraining consultation.