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Presented at the NIDA Blending Conference, "Blending Addiction Science & Practice: Bridges to the Future," Seattle, WA, October 16-17, 2006.
Lonnetta Albright, MSW (Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center), Maxine L. Stitzer, PhD (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MA Node), John Hamilton, LPC, MFT (LMG Programs, Inc., NE Node).
This set of three presentations from session 13 of the Blending Conference all focus on the new NIDA Blending Team Product, “Promoting Awareness of Motivational Incentives (PAMI).” The presentations provide a preview of the PAMI product, review the research on motivational incentives, discuss the clinical implications, demonstrate the technology, and announce further dissemination plans and strategies. The first presentation describes the PAMI product, which is the first Blending Team Product to incorporate a multi-media approach. It highlights results from the CTN MIEDAR studies (protocol CTN-0006/0007), and uses a CD-ROM interface with video, a variety of presentations from policy makers and clinicians, a tool kit, and assorted other resources to help increase awareness of the motivational incentives approach and assist clinicians and community treatment providers in their attempts to adopt this intervention into practice.
The second presentation, “Motivational Incentives: From Research to Practice,” describes the MIEDAR study in greater detail, including details about the “fishbowl” method, a low-cost motivational incentives approach. This presentation includes details about the outcomes of the MIEDAR study, which found that abstinence incentives were effective in retaining stimulant abusers in treatment, and prolonging their durations of abstinence. This presentation also describes some secondary analyses of the MIEDAR data, looking more closely at the use of incentives for methamphetamine abusers and gamblers.
Finally, the third presentation describes other research about motivational incentives, including a closer examination of contingency management, positive incentives, and choice of reinforcers. It also presents a honest look at the challenges of implementing a motivational incentives program (cost, on-site testing, managing the prize cabinet, etc.). This presentation ends with a discussion of future directions for research and practice, along with a description of how this all relates to the larger goal of dissemination in the CTN. (Presentation, PDF, English, 2006)
 Keywords: Behavior therapy | Blending Team Product | Community health services | Contingency management (CM) | Dissemination | MIEDAR | Motivational incentives | Stimulant abuse | NIDA Blending Conference, 2006
Document No: 184
Submitted by the CTN Dissemination Librarians, 3/30/2007. |
