MI Training Study


Recruitment for the ELICIT project is currently closed. Below are the eligibility criteria for the study. Thank you for your interest! For more information and answers to commonly asked questions, click here. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns at mitrainingstudy2009@gmail.com.

Project ELICIT Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria

  • Interested clinicians must provide eligibility information via the on-line application.
  • Clinicians must be fully licensed (or hold a substance-abuse certificate).
  • Clinicians must primarily treat clients with substance-abuse issues.
  • Clinicians must treat at least 10 individual clients per week (face-to-face, for substance-abuse issues, and in a not-for-profit setting).
  • Clinicians must have more than one year of experience in providing therapy.
  • Clinicians must live and work in the USA.
  • Clinicians’ clients must be 18+ years of age and speak English.
  • Clinicians’ work setting must be not-for-profit (including universities, hospitals, and state/federal agencies).
  • Clinicians must have fewer than eight hours of formal training in Motivational Interviewing.
  • Clinicians must be willing to travel to Albuquerque, NM, USA for the training.
  • Clinicians must be willing to submit taped sessions with clients at baseline, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months.
  • Only one clinician per agency and department/site.
  • Must fully complete the pre-training packet by the deadline.

 

Previous Study Information

We are currently conducting a randomized control trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (Grant #1R01DA021227-01A1) in which we will be providing free motivational interviewing (MI) training to providers (counselors, psychologists, medical doctors, social workers, nurses) who work in the field of substance abuse. We are recruiting providers who have minimal experience with motivational interviewing and work in a not-for-profit setting.

One person per agency or setting will be able to participate in this study. Eligible clinicians will participate (with grant support) in a two-day MI training in Albuquerque, NM, which will be held November 17 - 18, 2009. William Miller, Ph.D., Theresa Moyers, Ph.D., Carolina E. Yahne, Ph.D., and Brian Burke, Ph.D., will provide workshop-training instruction. We will reimburse clinician participants for most costs (airfare, hotel stay, meals) related to the training.

The goal of this study is to test two different strategies for training providers in motivational interviewing. All participants will attend a two-day motivational interviewing training free of charge. Participants are asked to submit a pre-training audio work sample of a therapy session with an actual client. Following training, participants will be asked to submit three more audio work samples one week, six months, and twelve months after the training. Participants will be paid $75 (with a $25 bonus for timeliness) for each of the three post-training audio work samples.