title: Feasibility of teaching motivational interviewing to parents of young adults with recent-onset schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use.
abstract: This study examined the feasibility of providing motivational interviewing (MI) training to parents of young adults with recent-onset schizophrenia and co-occurring cannabis use. The training was offered in a mental health care setting as part of a family motivational intervention (FMI). Ninety-seven parents were randomly assigned to either FMI or routine family support (RFS). To obtain a measure of parent's MI skills at baseline and 3 months after they completed FMI, their role-play interactions with an actor portraying their child were coded. The coding method had satisfactory inter-rater reliability and internal consistency. At follow-up, parents in FMI showed significantly greater adherence to (p=.03) and competence in (p=.04) MI than parents in RFS. Parents in FMI also demonstrated significantly greater increases in expressing empathy (p=.01). These results demonstrate that FMI is a feasible method for increasing MI skills in parents. Additional research is needed to better understand the unique application of MI to parent-child interactions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: A.M.Smeerdijk@amc.uva.nl.
authors.forename: Maarten
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smeerdijk
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Service North Holland North, Alkmaar, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: René
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Keet
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Lieuwe
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: de Haan
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barrowclough
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Linszen
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schippers
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D002189:Marijuana Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D062405:Motivational Interviewing; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D013663:Teaching
keywords: Cannabis use; Family intervention; Motivational interviewing; Recent-onset schizophrenia