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Since the last century, we have been witnessing remarkable medical discoveries and advances in treatment, prevention, and control of many diseases and medical conditions that until recently have been considered fatal—some infectious diseases, injuries, heart and other organ failures, and many others. It is important to mention that effective treatment strategies for most of the conditions that make people seek medical consultation, such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol abuse or dependence, and many others, include a variety of necessary behavioral changes in addition to medications or other therapeutic interventions. In many instances, a healthy behavioral change is the key to a sustainable recovery, and often a behavioral change alone could be enough for a dramatic improvement to occur. Though a patient may have been genetically predisposed to develop the illness and may have been raised in an environment that contained known risk factors, it remains a fact that this individual’s behavioral choices played a prominent role in the onset and course of the disorder, as well as in a possible recovery.

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    Material adapted from Ingersoll et al. (2000); NIAAA Project MATCH motivational enhancement therapy manual (Miller et al. 1992; Rosengren and Wagner 2001); published on http://www.motivationalinterview.org/clinical/interaction.html.

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  1. Center for Criminality and Addiction Research, Training and Application (CCARTA), La Jolla, CA, USA

    Igor Koutsenok MD, MS

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, 5060 Shoreham Place, Suite 200, San Diego, CA, 92122, USA

    Igor Koutsenok MD, MS

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  1. Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, The St. Luke's & Roosevelt Hospitals Columbia University College of Physician, New York, USA

    Hunter L. McQuistion

  2. Center for Public Service Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Wesley E. Sowers

  3. New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA

    Jules M. Ranz

  4. University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA

    Jacqueline Maus Feldman

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Koutsenok, I. (2012). Motivational Interviewing. In: McQuistion, H., Sowers, W., Ranz, J., Feldman, J. (eds) Handbook of Community Psychiatry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3149-7_17

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