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Author(s) -
McCambridge Jim,
Rollnick Stephen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/add.12587
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , motivational interviewing , intervention (counseling) , psychology , brief intervention , face (sociological concept) , advice (programming) , interview , medical education , applied psychology , social psychology , medicine , computer science , sociology , psychiatry , social science , anthropology , programming language
use is cued in brief ongoing contacts and by pairing with a frequent behaviour. Participants take photographs or select pictures from online libraries to remind them of improvements and successes in control, and progress graphs of successful control offer additional material for productive imagery. Pilot trials on its effects on alcohol misuse and other behavioural goals are currently under way. We agree with McCambridge & Rollnick that additional focus is needed on addressing patients’ functional problems in brief MIs for excessive drinking. Even greater impact may be achieved by training motivational approaches as self-management skills, generating vivid imagery about improved futures, training people to incorporate imagery practice into their daily routines and rehearsing imagery in brief repeated contacts. We see these strategies as highly compatible with primary care and with patients’ priorities, and expect their application to result in stronger and more sustained changes across the spectrum of hazardous and dependent drinking.