Using Motivational Interviewing to Address College Client Alcohol Abuse

✍ Scribed by Mark B. Scholl; Dorothy M. Schmitt

• Book ID: 102290363
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1099-0399
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-1882.2009.tb00040.x

✦ Synopsis

Motivational Interviewing (MI; W. R. Miller & S. Rollnick, 2002) is presented as a potentially effective counseling strategy for assisting traditionally aged college students in reducing their problematic, heavy alcohol use. MI's congruence with two developmental theories—Self‐Determination Theory (R. M. Ryan & E. L. Deci, 2000) and Seven Vector Model (A. W. Chickering & L. Reisser, 1993)—is explored. In addition to presenting a case illustration, recommendations, advantages, and limitations are discussed.