Title
Transdiagnostic Motivational Enhancement Therapy to Reduce Treatment Attrition: Use in Emerging Adults
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry; Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center
Publication Date
2016-08-01
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities | Mental and Social Health | Mental Disorders | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology | Therapeutics
Abstract
Improving outcomes of youth with mental health (MH) needs as they transition into adulthood is of critical public health significance. Effective psychotherapy MH treatment is available, but can be effective only if the emerging adult (EA) attends long enough to benefit. Unfortunately, completion of psychotherapy among EAs is lower than for more mature adults (Edlund et al., 2002; Olfson, Marcus, Druss, and Pincus, 2002). To target the high attrition of EAs in MH treatment, investigators adapted a developmentally appropriate brief intervention aimed at reducing treatment attrition (TA) in psychotherapy and conducted a feasibility study of implementation. The intervention employs motivational interviewing strategies aimed at engaging and retaining EAs in outpatient MH treatment. Motivational enhancement therapy for treatment attrition, or MET-TA, takes only a few sessions at the outset of treatment as an adjunct to usual treatment. Importantly, it can be used for TA with psychotherapy for any MH condition; in other words, it is transdiagnostic. This article presents the first description of MET-TA, along with a case example that demonstrates important characteristics of the approach, and then briefly describes implementation feasibility based on a small pilot randomized controlled trial.
Keywords
emerging adults, motivational enhancement therapy, motivational interviewing, treatment attrition, treatment retention
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.cbpra.2015.09.007
Source
Cogn Behav Pract. 2016 Aug;23(3):368-384. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2015.09.007. Epub 2015 Oct 26. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Cognitive and behavioral practice
Related Resources
PubMed ID
28979088
Repository Citation
Mistler, Lisa; Sheidow, Ashli J.; and Davis, Maryann, "Transdiagnostic Motivational Enhancement Therapy to Reduce Treatment Attrition: Use in Emerging Adults" (2016). Psychiatry Publications and Presentations. 823.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_pp/823
