This pragmatic guide spells out how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context. Filled with vivid examples, sample dialogues, and "dos and don'ts," the book shows how conducting MI from a developmentally informed standpoint can help practitioners quickly build rapport with young patients, enhance their motivation to make healthy changes, and overcome ambivalence. Experts on specific adolescent problems describe MI applications in such key areas as substance abuse, smoking, sexual risk taking, eating disorders and obesity, chronic illness management, and externalizing and internalizing behavior problems.

I. The Guide
1. Introduction: Why Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults?
2. Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Brief Review of Development
3. The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
4. Person-Centered Guiding Skills
5. Responding to Resistance
6. Change Talk
7. Commitment
8. Integrating Motivational Interviewing into Your Practice
II. Side Trips
9. Alcohol Problems, Lynn Hernandez, Nancy Barnett, Hollie Sindelar-Manning, Thomas Chun, and Anthony Spirito
10. Marijuana Use, Denise Walker
11. The Juvenile Justice System, L. A. R. Stein
12. Sexual Risk Reduction, Juline Koken, Angulique Outlaw, and Monique Green-Jones
13. Smoking, Kimberly Horn
14. Psychiatric Disorders, Lisa J. Merlo and Nina Gobat
15. Eating Disorders, Janet Treasure, Carolina López, and Pam Macdonald
16. Obesity in Minorities, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Elizabeth Barnett, Jaimie Davis, and Ken Resnicow
17. Self-Care for Chronic Medical Conditions, Sylvie Naar-King and Deborah Ellis
18. Group Alcohol and Drug Treatment, Elizabeth J. D'Amico, Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing, Brett Engle, Sarah Hunter, Karen Chan Osilla, and Angela D. Bryan
19. Applications in Schools, Sebastian Kaplan, Brett Engle, Ashley Austin, and Eric F. Wagner
20. Family-Based Intervention, Sue Channon and Sune Rubak
III. Choosing Your Own Path
21. Ethical Considerations
22. Developing Proficiency in Motivational Interviewing