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  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client-centered approach to behavior change.
  • Client speech, including change talk (CT) and sustain talk (ST), is theorized as a key mechanism in MI.
  • The pattern of client speech, not just frequency, may be crucial for behavior change.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether patterns of client speech, specifically transitions in change talk, predict outcomes in MI.
  • To compare the predictive power of CT frequency versus CT transitions on drinking behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of recorded MI/MET psychotherapy sessions from Project MATCH using the MI-SCOPE coding system.
  • Calculation of session conditional probabilities for CT-CT transitions as log-normalized odds ratios.
  • Longitudinal generalized estimating equation (GEE) models predicting drinking outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Both CT frequency and CT-CT transitions predicted within-treatment drinking.
  • Only the CT-CT transition significantly predicted decreased drinking after treatment.
  • This suggests the sequence of change talk is a more robust predictor than frequency alone.

Conclusions:

  • The momentum of client change talk during MI sessions may be a superior predictor of treatment outcomes compared to simple frequency counts.
  • Recognizing and potentially fostering consecutive client statements of change talk could improve MI effectiveness.
  • This highlights the importance of analyzing the sequential nature of client speech in therapeutic interventions.