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A Brief Motivational Interviewing Intervention with Prisoners: When You Lead a Horse to Water, Can It Drink for Itself?
A Brief Motivational Interviewing Intervention with Prisoners: When You Lead a Horse to Water, Can It Drink for Itself?
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Aug. 24, 2011
ANNOTATION: “This study evaluated the effects of a brief offending-focused motivational interviewing (MI) intervention on reconviction in male prisoners servicing sentences for diverse crimes” in New Zealand (p. 1). Results are given for: effect of MI intervention on recidivism; interactions between the MI intervention and completion of criminogenic programs; validation stage of change ratings; prediction of recidivism outcomes using stage of change and other variables; and stage of change and post-MI referral to criminogenic programs. MI had a considerable impact on recidivism. Those prisoners in the MI intervention hade 21% less reconviction rates and 17% less re-imprisonment rates than non-participants.
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