Recently Jon Caramanica flew out to Malibu for several sessions of interviews with Kanye West at Rick Rubin's Shangri-La studios, where Mr. West was putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming album, "Yeezus," days before it was to be mastered and sent to the pressing plant.
After three or four sessions of interviews and observation in the familiar surroundings, the occupational therapist summarizes the meaningful activities that were named in both the interviews with the patient and the caregiver.
When I arrived, I went straight into an early-morning session of interviews.
All interviewers were offered counselling at any stage during the six months of data collection and although confidentiality was paramount, interviewers were encouraged to debrief with their supervisor at the end of each session of interviewing.
Participants in the intervention group will receive a brief intervention involving four group sessions of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy, initiated 4 weeks prior to release from prison.
Using a within-series simple phase-change design, 11 adolescents (M age=15.82, SD=1.40, 46% African-American, 36% Multi-Racial, 18% European-American) with major depressive disorder were offered 3 sessions of Motivational Interviewing Assessment (MIA; Phase A) followed by up to 12 sessions (M=6.3) of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy protocol (ACT; Phase B).
The program is based on the Motivational Enhancement Therapy manual and Cognitive Behavioral Coping skills training manual used in project MATCH [ 18, 19] and consists of 10 sessions of motivational interviewing, skills training and relapse prevention.
Four sessions of Motivational Interviewing led to significant improvements in body mass index (BMI) and self-efficacy in overweight and obese women compared to a waiting list control 11.
The aims of the present study were to compare the effects of 2 sessions of motivational interviewing and treatment as usual (intervention group) with treatment as usual only (control group) on adult patients with comorbid substance use admitted to a psychiatric in-patient emergency unit.
Two individual, 30-min sessions of Motivational Interviewing delivered over 3 weeks with residents of an American Indian reservation with T2D found predictors of change in HbA1c included change in provider trust, treatment acceptance, depression and reported hours of exercise per week 52.
BIs based on one or two sessions of motivational interviewing (MI) that lasted between 20 and 45 min have been studies in an adolescent population (Monti et al., 1999, 2007; Peterson et al., 2006; D'Amico et al., 2008; Schaus et al., 2009).
