A new review of studies says that addressing tobacco use without judging the user appears to help people quit, especially if a primary care physician uses a form of supportive counseling called ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Motivational interviewing, a conversational style designed to "strengthen a person's motivation and commitment to change," is more than just a technique, according to Auguste Fortin ...

There is something rotten in the state of current reinforcement learning models of conditioning. Most experiments report measures such as the rate of responding given the state of the subject and the ...

Incentive motivation, or the attraction to external stimuli that have appetitive or rewarding properties, is central to many normal and abnormal behaviors (Robbins and Everitt, 2003; Robinson and ...

Columbus, OH—Scott Gerhard, MA, LSW, of our Center will present a training session, titled "Why Won't My Clients Do What I Tell Them To?," at a meeting of the Ohio Chief Probation Officers Association ...