Works
- Client Commitment Language During Motivational Interviewing Predicts Drug Use Outcomes, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 71(5), with William R. Miller, Carolina E. Yahne, Michael Palmer, and Laura Fulcher, 2003
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A psychologist at Montclair State University who, with William R. Miller and colleagues, coded what 84 drug users said during motivational interviews. The strength of commitment language when clients reviewed a change plan predicted later abstinence, and statements of desire, ability, need, and reasons predicted commitment, the categories of change talk that motivational interviewing teaches clinicians to hear.
Caveat: A later study of marijuana treatment found that commitment language did not predict outcomes, while desire and reasons statements did.