Specialist supportive clinical management for anorexia nervosa: Analysis of therapy content and relation to outcome.

Objective: Psychotherapy for anorexia nervosa (AN) is complex and multifaceted, with little known about likely effective components of treatments. The current study explored the spoken content of specialist supportive clinical management (SSCM) for AN, a treatment with evidence of effectiveness in several randomized clinical trials.

Method: One hundred seventy-eight therapy sessions constituting all ten therapist-patient dyads of those who completed SSCM treatment in the original clinical trial of SSCM, were transcribed verbatim.

Client language during motivational enhancement therapy and alcohol use outcome.

Background: The exact link between the process engaged in during Motivational Interviewing based interventions, such as Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), and outcome is yet to be fully understood.

Aims: This preliminary study examined Client Language during MET and outcome.

Method: A modified Motivational Interviewing Skills Code Version 2.