Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults

The significantly revised second edition of this unique practitioner guide features 65% new material and a new organizing structure. The authors show how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context. Noted for its clarity, the book includes extended case examples, sample dialogues, quick-reference tables, and "dos and don'ts." It provides vital tools for helping young people open up about their struggles, explore alternatives, and make healthier choices around such concerns as substance use, smoking, anxiety, medication adherence, and obesity.

New to This Edition
*More integrative and cohesive: every chapter weaves in diverse clinical issues, replacing the prior edition's population-specific chapters.
*Chapters on MI in groups and involving caregivers in treatment.
*Restructured around the current four-process model of MI, and proposes maintenance of change as a fifth process.
*Incorporates the rapidly growing research base on MI with youth.
*Reflects the ongoing refinement of the authors' training approach; includes skill-building activities at the end of each chapter.

This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.


Author: Sylvie Naar,Mariann Suarez
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 08/16/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781462546985

About the Author

Sylvie Naar, PhD, is Distinguished Endowed Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine at the Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine. She is Founding Director of FSU's Center for Translational Behavioral Science and Director of the Clinical and Translational Science Award. Trained as a pediatric health psychologist, Dr. Naar has conducted behavioral health disparity research with adolescents and emerging adults since the 1990s, has led several research projects on community implementation of motivational interviewing (MI) tailored for adolescents and emerging adults, and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Dr. Naar is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health's Director's Transformative Research Award. She has over 225 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Mariann Suarez, PhD, ABPP, is Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of South Florida Health, Morsani College of Medicine. Dr. Suarez is a community-clinical and pediatric psychologist, with specialization in child abuse and neglect and board certification in behavioral and cognitive psychology. She served on the American Board of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology and publishes on the use of MI in the treatment of substance use problems, neurocognitive developmental issues, and parenting concerns. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) for decades, she provides training nationally and internationally, with particular interests in teaching health care and community providers to use MI and evidence-based practices with adolescents and young adults.