Handbook of Motivational Counseling (eBook)

Client motivation is a topic of central importance for all those in the helping professions. Handbook of Motivational Counseling provides the link between empirically validated motivational theory and contemporary techniques. Drawing upon an international team of contributors, W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger present a comprehensive guide to how motivational problems develop, how they can be identified, and how they can be corrected.

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Foreword by Professor Peter E. Nathan.

Preface.

PART I. BASIC CONCEPTS AND THEORIES.

Chapter 1. Motivation and the Theory of Current Concerns (Eric
Klinger and W. Miles Cox).

Chapter 2. Motivation and Addiction: The Role of Incentive
Motivation in Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders
(Suzette V. Glasner).

Chapter 3. Behavioral Economics: Basic Concepts and Clinical
Applications (Christopher J. Correia).

Chapter 4. Personal Project Pursuit: On Human Doings and Well
Beings (Brian R. Little and Neil C. Chambers).

Chapter 5. Goal Conflicts: Concepts, Findings and Consequences
for Psychotherapy (Johannes Michalak, et al.).

Chapter 6. Motivational Counseling in an Extended Functional
Context: Personality Systems Interaction Theory and Assessment
(Reiner Kaschel and Julius Kuhl).

Chapter 7. A Motivational Model of Alcohol Use: Determinants of
Use and Change (W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger).

PART II. ASSESSMENT AND RELATIONSHIPS TO BEHAVIOR.

Chapter 8. Measuring Motivation: The Motivational Structure
Questi onnaire and Personal Concerns Inventory (W. Miles Cox and
Eric Klinger).

Chapter 9. The Motivational Structure Questionnaire and Personal
Concerns Inventory: Psychometric Properties (Eric Klinger and W.
Miles Cox).

Chapter 10. Volitional and Emotional Correlates of the
Motivational Structure Questionnaire: Further Evidence for
Construct Validity (Nicola Bumann).

PART III. SYSTEMATIC MOTIVATIONAL COUNSELING AND ITS
APPLICATIONS.

Chapter 11. Systematic Motivational Counseling: The Motivational
Structure Questionnaire in Action (W. Miles Cox and E.
Klinger).

Chapter 12. Systematic Motivational Counseling in Groups:
Clarifying Motivational Structure during Psychotherapy (Bernhard M.
Schroer, et al.).

Chapter 13. Systematic Motivational Analysis as Part of
Self-Help Technique Aimed at Personal Goal Attainment (Renate de
Jong-Meyer).

Chapter 14. Systematic Motivational Counseling at Work:
Improving Employee Performance, Satisfaction, and Socialization
(Loriann Roberson and David M. Sluss).

Chapter 15. Systematic Motivational Counseling in Rehabilitation
Medicine (S. Vincent Miranti, et al.).

Chapter 16. Assessing and Changing Motivation to Offend (Mary
McMurran).

PART IV. OTHER MOTIVATIONAL APPROACHES TO CHANGING BEHAVIOR.

Chapter 17. Enhancing Motivation for Psychotherapy: The
Elaboration of Positive Perspectives (EPOS) to Develop Clients'
Goal Structure (Ulrike Willutzki and Christoph Koban).

Chapter 18. Viktor E. Frankl's Existential Analysis and
Logotherapy (Manfred Hillmann).

Chapter 19. Changing Alcohol Expectancies: Techniques for
Altering Motivations for Drinking (Barry T. Jones).

Chapter 20. The Motivational Drinker's Check-Up: A Brief
Intervention for Early Stage Problem Drinkers (Maria J. Emmen,
et al.).

Chapter 21. Motivational Enhancement as a Brief Intervention for
College Student Drinkers (Arthur W. Blume and G. Alan Marlatt).

Chapter 22. Community Reinforcement Approach and Contingency
Management Interventions for Substance Abuse (Conrad J. Wong, et
al.).

Chapter 23. Goal Setting as a Motivational Technique for
Neurorehabilitation (Siegfried Gauggel and Martina Hoop).

Chapter 24. Motivational Interviewing in Health Promotion and
Behavioral Medicine (Ken Resnicow, et al.).

PART V. CONCLUSION.

Chapter 25. Motivational Counseling: Taking Stock and Looking
Ahead (W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger).

Author Index.

Subject Index.