MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND SOLUTION-FOCUSED COUNSELING FOR PROBLEM GAMBLERS: PREVALENCE AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR A MESH OF CLINICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DISCOURSES IN ALBERTA Project Approved 2009-10
Dr. Tom Strong (Principal Investigator)
Division of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary
Co-investigator:
Ms. Tanya Mudry Division of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary
The proposed pilot research will survey publicly funded Alberta counsellors regarding their use, and institutional experience of using, solution-focused and motivational interviewing approaches to counselling problem gamblers. It will also involve a comprehensive literature review pertaining to understanding use of such clinical discourses in institutional health settings. The research is preliminary to a more comprehensive proposal relating use of solution-focused and motivational interviewing counselling approaches in publicly and privately funded services for problem gamblers in Canada.
Status (Complete)
A survey was conducted, with follow-ups to those indicating interest in participating in the longer survey. Access was granted to key Alberta Health Services documents as these pertained to the use of Motivation Interviewing and Solution Focused Counselling clinical methods with problem gamblers. Both the survey data and the institutional documents were analyzed and results reported in a technical report and in a manuscript submitted for review.
Scholarly Articles or Working Papers:
Strong, T., & Mudry, T. (under review). Motivational interviewing and solution-focused counselling for problem gamblers: Considerations for meshing clinical and institutional discourses.
Strong, T., & Mudry, T. (2010, June). Motivational interviewing and solution-focused counselling for problem gamblers: Prevalence and considerations for a mesh of clinical and administrative discourses in Alberta. Technical report to the Alberta Gaming Research Institute. (non-refereed)
Scholarly Conference Papers:
Strong, T., French, J. R., & McKenzie, M. (2010, April). Conversations of change? Examining gamblers’ help-seeking and change-sustaining conversations. Poster presented at the Emergent Clinical Issues in Problem Gambling conference – Alberta Gaming Research Institute.
Strong, T., & Mudry, T. (2010, April). Motivational interviewing and Solution-focused counselling for problem gamblers: Practicing in a medically oriented mental health context. Poster presented at the Emergent Clinical Issues in Problem Gambling conference – Alberta Gaming Research Institute.
Strong, T., & Anderson, M. (2009, October). Accounting for clients’ conversational agency. Presentation to the Advances in Qualitative Methods conference. Vancouver, Canada. Powerpoint available on request.
Strong, T., Anderson, M., & Lewycky, S. (2009, March). Recovery from problem gambling: Inviting accounts of (and mobilizing) conversational agency. Poster presented at the Banff Conference on Internet Gambling – Alberta Gaming Research Institute.
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