Getting the message across to young drinkers and smokers: brief motivational interventions may help
Geoff Lowe
(Geoff Lowe is a Health Psychologist, in the Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Hull, UK.)
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Abstract
A short piece on the efficacy of employing brief motivational interventions (one‐to‐one interviews) with young people as a method of reducing their drinking or smoking. If conducted within a medical context they can be seen to have a significant effect on the young person’s future behaviour.
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Citation
Lowe, G. (2001), "Getting the message across to young drinkers and smokers: brief motivational interventions may help", Health Education, Vol. 101 No. 1, pp. 38-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/09654280110366162
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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