“…MI is a psychotherapeutic intervention that assesses a person’s readiness to change (or stage of change) and then implements a treatment program tailored for his or her stage of change (Miller & Rollnick, 2013). It has been demonstrated to be useful in the areas of treatment adherence and engagement (Dean, Britt, Bell, Stanley, & Collings, 2016), improving health behaviors (Kaar, Luberto, Campbell, & Huffman, 2017) and, in particular, in improving addictive behaviors in several studies (Arnaud et al, 2016; Hettema, Steele, & Miller, 2005; Lundahl et al, 2013; Romano & Peters, 2015). In adults, MI has had the highest effect sizes of all treatments for alcohol use disorders (Miller, 1996, 2000).…”