Stages of change in psychotherapy: Measurement and sample profiles.

Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change.

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Determining the number of components from the matrix of partial correlations

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Stages and processes of self-change of smoking: Toward an integrative model of change.

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In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.

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Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change.

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Toward a Comprehensive Model of Change

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Development of a short ‘readiness to change’ questionnaire for use in brief, opportunistic interventions among excessive drinkers

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Readiness and stages of change in addiction treatment

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Using Measurement-Based Care to Enhance Any Treatment

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Distress tolerance as a predictor of early treatment dropout in a residential substance abuse treatment facility

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Stages of Change: A Critique

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Adding voucher-based incentives to coping skills and motivational enhancement improves outcomes during treatment for marijuana dependence.

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Anxiety sensitivity and interoceptive exposure: A transdiagnostic construct and change strategy

Boswell, J. F., Farchione, T. J., Sauer-Zavala, S., Murray, H. W., Fortune, M. R., & Barlow, D. H. (2013) · Behavior Therapy · doi:10.1016/j.beth.2013.03.006 · Cited by 232

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adults Who Stutter: Psychosocial Adjustment and Speech Fluency

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Predicting termination and continuation status in psychotherapy using the transtheoretical model

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Working Toward Freedom from Violence: The Process of Change in Battered Women

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Stages of change in anxiety: psychometric properties of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA) scale

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Treatment motivation, treatment expectancy, and helping alliance as predictors of outcome in cognitive behavioral treatment of OCD

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Understanding the adoption of arthritis self-management: stages of change profiles among arthritis patients

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Assessing readiness to change among clients seeking help for hypersexual behavior

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A randomized pilot study of motivation enhancement therapy to increase utilization of cognitive-behavioral therapy for social anxiety

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A brief course of cognitive behavioural therapy for the treatment of misophonia: a case example

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Preventing relapse among former smokers: A comparison of minimal interventions through telephone and mail.

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The efficacy of incorporating motivational interviewing to cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety disorders: A review and meta-analysis

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A natural language screening measure for motivation to change

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Challenges using motivational interviewing as an adjunct to exposure therapy for obsessive–compulsive disorder

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A randomized controlled pilot study of motivational interviewing for patients with psychotic and drug use disorders

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Predicting Completion of a Cognitive-Behavioral Pain Management Program by Initial Measures of a Chronic Pain Patient's Readiness for Change

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A critical review of the pain readiness to change model

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Readiness to adopt the self-management approach to cope with chronic pain in fibromyalgic patients

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Cognitive-Affective Predictors of Women’s Readiness to End Domestic Violence Relationships

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Comparing the predictive capacity of observed in-session resistance to self-reported motivation in cognitive behavioral therapy

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Impact of a treatment rationale on expectancy and engagement in cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety

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Motivation for Youth’s Treatment Scale (MYTS): A New Tool for Measuring Motivation Among Youths and Their Caregivers

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Examining Perceptions of a Smartphone-Based Intervention System for Alcohol Use Disorders

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Single-session motivational interviewing for drug detoxification inpatients: effects on self-efficacy, stages of change and substance use

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A Systematic Literature Review of Medical Chatbot Research from a Behavior Change Perspective

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RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE DUTCH VERSION OF THE READINESS TO CHANGE QUESTIONNAIRE

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Assessing motivation to change in eating disorders: a systematic review

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Pilot randomized clinical trial of the Teachable Moment Brief Intervention for hospitalized suicide attempt survivors.

O'Connor, S. S., Mcclay, M. M., Choudhry, S., Shields, A. D., Carlson, R., Alonso, Y., Lavin, K., Venanzi, L., Comtois, K. A., Wilson, J. E., et al. (2020) · General Hospital Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2018.08.001 · Cited by 29

A Manual-Based Intervention to Address Clinical Crises and Retain Patients in the Treatment of Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS)

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Readiness to adopt a self-management approach to pain: evaluation of the pain stages of change model in a non-pain-clinic sample

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Leaving an Abusive Partner: Exploring Boundary Ambiguity Using the Stages of Change Model

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The influence of expectancy persuasion techniques on socially anxious analogue patients' treatment beliefs and therapeutic actions

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Development and validation of the Readiness for Therapy Questionnaire (RTQ)

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Self-awareness of problematic drug use: Preliminary validation of a new fMRI task to assess underlying neurocircuitry

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Treating Heavy Drinking in Primary Care Practices: Evaluation of a Telephone-based Intervention Program

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Nutrition assessment in process-driven, personalized dietetic intervention – The potential importance of assessing behavioural components to improve behavioural change: Results of the EU-funded IMPECD project

Kohlenberg-Müller, K., Ramminger, S., Kolm, A., Barkmeijer, A., Gast, C., Adam, M., Le Bruyn, B., Heine-Bröring, R., Rachman-Elbaum, S., Werkman, A., et al. (2019) · Clinical Nutrition ESPEN · doi:10.1016/j.clnesp.2019.03.017 · Cited by 10

Efficacy of an internet-based psychological intervention for problem gambling and gambling disorder: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Personalized Culinary Medicine: Qualitative Analyses of Perceptions From Participants in Action and Contemplation Stages of Change Through a One‐Year Bi‐Center Randomized Controlled Trial

Finkelstein, A., Budd, M. A., Gray, B. E., Mirsky, J., Tirosh, A., & Polak, R. (2025) · Nutrients · doi:10.3390/nu17040704 · Cited by 6

The INternet ThERapy for deprESsion trial (INTEREST): protocol for a patient-preference, randomised controlled feasibility trial comparing iACT, iCBT and attention control among individuals with comorbid chronic pain and depression

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