Final Project Topics

FINAL PROJECT

Students will write a 10-12 page paper with references evaluating the evidence and making recommendations for implementing a new brief intervention in one of the two areas below.  Papers should comment on the evidence from the papers listed here, but students should seek out and comment on other evidence, ideally from published randomized trials, systematic reviews/meta-analyses, or practice guidelines.  Students should apply what they have learned and make recommendations about implementing the program in the context of one of the following three community-based organizations:

Corner Health Center: http://www.cornerhealth.org Links to an external site.

Hispanic Center of West Michigan: http://hispanic-center.org/family-support/ Links to an external site.

Neutral Zone: http://neutral-zone.org/programs/ Links to an external site.

F.1 Risky sexual behavior

Screening: Greenberg, Judith, Laurence Magder, and Sevgi Aral. "Age at first coitus a marker for risky sexual behavior in women." Sexually transmitted diseases 19.6 (1992): 331-334.

Kamb, Mary L., et al. "Efficacy of risk-reduction counseling to prevent human immunodeficiency virus and sexually transmitted diseases: a randomized controlled trial." Jama 280.13 (1998): 1161-1167.

Belcher, Lisa, et al. "A randomized trial of a brief HIV risk reduction counseling intervention for women." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 66.5 (1998): 856.

Shain, Rochelle N., et al. "A randomized, controlled trial of a behavioral intervention to prevent sexually transmitted disease among minority women." New England Journal of Medicine 340.2 (1999): 93-100.

Marks, Gary, et al. "Meta-analysis of high-risk sexual behavior in persons aware and unaware they are infected with HIV in the United States: implications for HIV prevention programs." JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 39.4 (2005): 446-453.

Kalichman, Seth C., et al. "Use of a brief behavioral skills intervention to prevent HIV infection among chronic mentally ill adults." Psychiatric Services 46.3 (1995): 275-280.

F.2 Teenage drug use

Walker, Denise D., et al. "Randomized controlled trial of motivational enhancement therapy with nontreatment-seeking adolescent cannabis users: A further test of the teen marijuana check-up." Psychology of addictive behaviors 25.3 (2011): 474.

Walker, Denise D., et al. "Motivational enhancement therapy for adolescent marijuana users: a preliminary randomized controlled trial." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 74.3 (2006): 628.

Liddle, Howard A., et al. "Multidimensional family therapy for adolescent drug abuse: Results of a randomized clinical trial." The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 27.4 (2001): 651-688.

Copeland, Jan, et al. "A randomized controlled trial of brief cognitive–behavioral interventions for cannabis use disorder." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 21.2 (2001): 55-64.

F.3 BI’s for addressing gambling addiction

Hodgins, D. C., et al. "Brief Motivational Treatment for Problem Gambling: A 24-Month Follow-Up." Psychol Addict Behav 18 3 (2004): 293-6.

Petry, N. M., et al. "A Randomized Trial of Brief Interventions for Problem and Pathological Gamblers." J Consult Clin Psychol 76 2 (2008): 318-28.

Steenbergh, T. A., et al. "Impact of warning and brief intervention messages on knowledge of gambling risk, irrational beliefs and behaviour." International Gambling Studies 4.1 (2004): 3-16.

F.4 BI's for patients with chronic pain

Hoffman BM, Papas RK, Chatkoff DK, Kerns RD. Meta-analysis of psychological interventions for chronic low back pain. Health Psychol. 2007;26(1):1-9.

Cherkin DC, Sherman KJ, Balderson BH, et al. Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction vs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Usual Care on Back Pain and Functional Limitations in Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2016;315(12):1240-1249.

Naylor MR, Keefe FJ, Brigidi B, Naud S, Helzer JE. Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response for chronic pain reduction and relapse prevention. Pain. 2008;134(3):335-345.