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Webinar Recording: Client-centered therapy skills ...
Webinar Recording: Client-centered therapy skills and%0Dtreatment engagement
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Dr. David Stifler welcomes attendees to an American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry webinar series on advanced addiction psychotherapy, featuring Dr. Teresa (Terri) Moyers, an expert in motivational interviewing and evidence-based addiction treatment. Moyers’ goal is to highlight research on how much therapists themselves influence client outcomes, identify therapist skills linked to better results, and demonstrate a practical skill. She reviews decades of evidence showing many “bona fide” psychosocial treatments outperform no-treatment or sham controls, yet often show <em>equivalent</em> outcomes when compared against each other (the “Dodo bird verdict”), including Project MATCH (CBT, 12-step facilitation, and motivational enhancement). Meta-analyses likewise find minimal differences among credible alcohol treatments. Treatment-as-usual can also perform as well as manualized interventions. A key explanation is that therapist variability—often treated as a “nuisance” in research—may matter more than treatment model. Random-effects analyses suggest therapists account for about 7–9% of outcome variance, typically exceeding the 2–3% explained by treatment assignment. Fixed-effects studies in real-world settings show dramatic differences: “top” therapists achieve larger improvements in fewer sessions, while the lowest performers may even worsen outcomes. Adherence to manuals is not reliably tied to better results; very high or very low adherence can predict poorer outcomes, possibly due to lost relational factors or lack of structure. Confrontation and low empathy can be harmful. Moyers summarizes eight therapist factors associated with better outcomes (from her book with Bill Miller), emphasizing accurate empathy and “evoking” clients’ own strengths. She illustrates “Ask–Tell–Ask” as a way to give advice while supporting autonomy and reducing resistance, and recommends routine outcome monitoring and feedback to help therapists improve.
Keywords
addiction psychotherapy
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry
motivational interviewing
Teresa Moyers
therapist effects
client outcomes
Dodo bird verdict
Project MATCH
treatment adherence
accurate empathy
Ask-Tell-Ask
routine outcome monitoring
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