Background Injecting drug use is a major risk factor for the acquisition and transmission of
HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV). Prevention of these infections among people who inject …

Understanding the role of personal motivation in addiction treatment changed with the
advent of the Transtheoretical Model of intentional behavior change, a better understanding …

Background Injecting drug users are vulnerable to infection with HIV and other blood borne
viruses as a result of collective use of injecting equipment as well as sexual behaviour …

Background In the past two decades, a number of studies investigating the role of the
therapeutic alliance in drug treatment have been published and it is timely that their findings …

Systematic evaluations of efforts to transfer research-based interventions and procedures
into general practice at community drug treatment programs have been limited. However …

Clients in the national Drug Abuse Treatment Outcome Study reported significant overall
improvements in drug use and related measures during a 12-month follow-up period. A …

ABSTRACT Aims The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Methamphetamine
Treatment Project (MTP) is the largest randomized clinical trial of treatments for …

A widely adopted practitioner resource and course text, this book shows how to apply
knowledge about behavior change in general--and the stages-of-change model in particular …

Aims. This study examined client motivation as a predictor of retention and therapeutic
engagement across the major types of treatment settings represented in the third national …

Client engagement has been associated with positive psychotherapeutic outcomes, yet it is
relatively under-theorized. The aims of this review were to establish how client engagement …