Your Questions About Motivational Interviewing

Sharon asks…

what grade would you give this paper? ?

The purpose of this paper is to talk about a specific treatment in chemical dependency and relate it to a certain type of population and talk about how the treatment is used with that certain type of population?

College binge drinking students have reasons for binged drinking which leads to heavy consequences. Means comparisons indicated that both groups showed reductions in alcohol-related problems, however, only the MI sample evidenced significant reductions in binge drinking (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). Misuse of alcohol can lead to a wide range of consequences, the most severe being alcohol abuse, dependence, and death (Devos-Comby, L. & Lange, J., 2008). The median number of drinks in a row that a college man or women must have to be called a binge drinker is 6 for a man and 5 for a woman (Wechsler, H., & Kuo, M. (2000).
Treatments such as motivational interviewing can benefit specifically college students who drink alcohol in sororities or fraternities that, binge drink. Binge drinking is a common problem that many college students are facing throughout their college lives. There are many alcoholic specific treatments that offer a wide range of help to allow those who suffer from binge drinking to be able to recovery from the alcoholic abuse.
There are a couple of successful ways in which binge drinking can be helped. Findings show that more education and provision of coping skills training during treatment may influence self-efficacy by increasing the coping resources of a patient with SUD (McKellar, Ilgen & Moos, 2008).
The present findings suggest that individuals who report the greatest initial improvements in alcohol-related problems and impulsivity may have difficulty maintaining a high level of self-efficacy (McKellar, Ilgen & Moos, 2008). One brief intervention, motivational interviewing (MI) has shown efficacy in reducing alcohol-related problems in college samples (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). When compared with MI, other interventions have also reduced student drinking, necessitating the inclusion of a control condition when evaluating
MI (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). While participants reported feeling increased discrepancy from their peers and increased desire to reduce drinking, no behavior change emerged (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007).

Alcohol students encounter binge drinking due to a form of social entertainment with other college students. Alcohol is the main factor in which students have no control since the process to reduce alcohol consumption is a difficult process. Some types of treatments to consider for alcoholic students are detoxification. Also college students have a hard time in understanding themselves.
There are many factors that contribute to alcohol such as society, pressure, and stress. As a college student, alcohol is a way to release the negativity of life and just use alcohol as a mean to numb the pain one goes through. In order to understand what treatment is best for oneself several steps should be considered to see which treatment is best for one. Consideration of selection and socialization effects is central to understanding how substance use relates to fraternity, and sorority membership (McCabe, Schulenberg, Johnston, O’Malley, Bachman & Kloska, 2005).

There are college students who already started to drink and therefore want to become associated with sororities or fraternities in order to drink more excessively without limitations. Undergraduate students who are heavy drinkers before starting college may tend to select specific fraternities and sororities with a reputation for ‘partying’ and heavy drinking; In turn, being a member of such fraternities or sororities serves to increase their heavy drinking (McCabe, S., Schulenberg, J., Johnston, L., O’Malley, P., Bachman, J., & Kloska, D. (2005).
The lack of a significant interaction between gender and group membership indicates that the brief intervention resulted in comparable drinking reductions in women and men (Borsari & Carey, 2000). One of the treatments that are used with college binge drinking students is brief motivational interviewing. First, the interviewer helped the student review personal alcohol use in the past month, which was then compared with both campus and national norms (Borsari & Carey, 2000).
College students binge drink for numerous reasons. In the context of substance use, an individual can use drugs or alcohol as an avoidance strategy to try to reduce distress or depression or, alternatively, can rely on active/approach methods, such as problem solving and seeking social support, to cope with stress (Forys, McKellar & Moos, 2007).
There are consequences as to why college students decide to binge drink even though it is harm to them. Present findings suggest that individuals who report the greatest initial improvements in alcohol-related problems and impulsivity may have difficulty maintaining

admin answers:

B+

Maria asks…

What are the most challenging interview questions you have been asked at an employment interview?

It would be good if the questions could relate to either personality trait questions/ motivational & attitude related/ experience and skill set related,
thanks!

admin answers:

“Let us suppose for a moment we hire you. Where would you want to be with this company in five years?”

“By that time, i would have esdstablished myself as a creative force and would have been made an apprenctice in the promotion department, groomed to take over when the person in charge would retire.”

[PS, I didn't get the job]

David asks…

Can I be a self employed smoking advisor?

Basically, I work for a company as a Stop Smoking Advisor but would like to be my own boss and work as an online/email stop smoking advisor or work as a smoking advisor for businesses and organisations on 12 week contracts in which I get paid for my service and wondered if it is possible in the UK or would I need some form of acceptance from the NHS?

I am level 1&2 trained in smoking cessation and also hold a cert. in motivational interviewing in smoking cessation.

admin answers:

Sure, now can you make any MONEY is the real question.

Ruth asks…

I got a Skype job interview on Friday morning. Is it okay if I’ve got a cool Skype name?

Is it okay I’ve got a cool skype name that pertains to something inspirational and motivational?

admin answers:

No.

At work I always chuckle when my client on the phone (lawyers, bankers, consultants) offer their personal email addresses for my business correspondence.

Lawyers with emails like “Mike_is_a_god@something dot com”
Lady bankers offering “Fluffy_Bunny@hotmaildot com”

You get the picture.

They don’t have to impress me, though…your situation is different.

Nancy asks…

Can anyone think of a good instrumental song to use for a testimonial/personal story video about an illness?

the illness is diabetes. Im making a demo video right now where i have several clips from interviews we did with various people with diabetes. the video consist of these people talking about life with diabetes, how its affected their lives, how hard is it to deal with it, motivational stories, etc. Its mostly what you would consider as “sappy”. anyway i need some background music for it. any ideas???

admin answers:

Try J.S. Bach’s Prelude in C Major, seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlAic9aPoqs

It’s a very famous piece, so there ought to be a thousand different recordings you can choose from.

Alternately you can choose Gounod’s Ave Maria, which is based on the above piece. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn9qAjIgCek)

Once again, there’s probably a thousand different recordings of the Ave Maria you can choose from.

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