Mounting evidence implicates health behaviors (eg, nutrition, physical activity, tobacco
abstinence) in various health outcomes. As the science of behavior change has emerged …

Autonomy, defined as self-regulation and integration in acting, is central to healthy
psychological development and functioning. Classic organismic and dynamic theories have …

Given the frequency with which individuals seek treatment for alcohol-related consequences
in emergency departments (EDs), they may be the optimal setting to deliver brief …

This is the authoritative, bestselling guide that professionals and students turn to for a
complete introduction to motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating …

This chapter, in keeping with the spirit of the field of developmental psychopathology,
examines both the developmental underpinnings of healthy autonomy and the processes …

L'application de la théorie de l'autodétermination au domaine de la psychothérapie est
particulièrement pertinente, car l'un des principaux rôles de la thérapie est d'encourager le …

Motivational interviewing has become widely adopted as a counseling style for promoting
behavior change; however, as yet it lacks a coherent theoretical framework for …

In this article we compare and integrate two well‐established approaches to motivating
therapeutic change, namely self‐determination theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985, 2000) and …

This comprehensive clinical handbook provides virtually everything needed to plan, deliver,
and evaluate effective treatment for persons with substance abuse problems and persistent …

Evidence from specialized treatment evaluations and large-scale natural studies of
treatment effectiveness is organized conceptually into a “treatment model” for summarizing …