Brief motivational interventions for college drinkers: What we still need to know.

Abstract

Isolating the mechanisms of change that lead to reduced risk for heavy drinking by college students-a high-risk population-will permit development of succinct, targeted, and thereby more effective interventions. Examinations of currently used empirically supported brief interventions provide a starting point for identifying mediators (i.e., mechanisms) of change.Extrapolating from such work, it appears that there may be utility in using face-valid and possibly genderspecific interventions. In moving forward, it behooves clinical researchers to continue to draw on theory to identify potential proximal predictors of change. Continuing to think broadly will allow us to not only refine the current content of brief interventions but also open up the opportunity to introduce new components to treatment.

Hopelessness and Excessive Drinking among Aboriginal Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Drinking to Cope

“…The meditational results can be helpful for informing the content of such preventative or early interventions [70]. Mediational findings from the present study suggest the need to focus on depressive symptoms and maladaptive drinking to cope in targeted interventions for Aboriginal youth with high levels of hopelessness.…”

“…The present findings of an indirect relation between hopelessness and excessive drinking suggest that targeted interventions for Aboriginal youth who are high in hopelessness are needed to prevent or decrease excessive drinking. The meditational results can be helpful for informing the content of such preventative or early interventions [ 70 ]. Mediational findings from the present study suggest the need to focus on depressive symptoms and maladaptive drinking to cope in targeted interventions for Aboriginal youth with high levels of hopelessness.…”

Testing the Implicit and Explicit Cognitions Underlying Behavioral Inhibition System-Related Drinking in Young Adults

“…To illustrate, one‐third of Canadian undergraduates drink at harmful levels, and 17% report experiencing alcohol‐related physical and/or sexual assault (Adlaf et al., ). Despite ongoing intervention and prevention efforts, alcohol misuse among young adults continues to be a major public health concern (O'Connor and Stewart, ).…”

Determining the Effectiveness of an Alcohol Intervention Program With Greek College Students

“…Martens, Smith, and Murphy (2013) also supported the importance of in-person personalized normative feedback in reducing alcohol use among students. Furthermore, intervention efforts can benefit from being gender-specific (O'Connor & Stewart, 2010;Thompson et al, 2009); however, the only gender-specific interventions that have been done to date relate to social normative feedback.…”