Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) is an empirically supported brief intervention that utilizes personalized graphic feedback and motivational enhancement techniques in its delivery.  Students who participate in BASICS are likely to be at different levels of readiness to make changes in their drinking, and Motivational Interviewing (MI) strategies (Miller & Rollnick, 2002) used in discussion of feedback could result in eliciting personally relevant reasons to change.  Finding the hook or a particular domain of importance to the student, and examining ways in which alcohol use could be affecting this, could lead to contemplation of change or even taking steps to make a change.  In this workshop, we will examine possible “hooks” for students, focus on ways in which alcohol could be impacting these domains, and consider how these might come up in a review of graphic feedback during BASICS sessions.  We will practice with techniques to elicit self-motivational statements (or “change talk”), which are statements that reflect concern or recognition of potential unwanted impacts.  We will also review basic MI strategies, with a review of why and how these are used in the context of BASICS sessions.

The Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors is offering a one-day BASICS training workshop:

Monday, September 12th, 2011

8:30am - 5:00pm

Waterfront Activities Center (WAC)

3900 Montlake Blvd. NE

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

In this one-day workshop, participants will receive knowledge and skills necessary to work with at-risk college drinkers including:

• • Review and application of basic Motivational Interviewing strategies to conversations with college students

• • Presentation of alcohol content relevant for BASICS

• • Discussion and review of personalized graphic feedback for eliciting personally relevant reasons for changing alcohol use

• • Consideration of possible “hooks” for students that could prompt contemplation of change
• • Practice of techniques to elicit self-motivational statements (or “change talk”), which are statements that reflect concern or recognition of potential unwanted impacts

Jason R. Kilmer, Ph.D.

Dr. Jason Kilmer received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington in 1997, and currently works at the University of Washington in both a student affairs and a research capacity. Dr. Kilmer is a Research Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, continuing a 20-year affiliation with colleagues at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center and the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors. In this capacity, he is an investigator on several studies evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol and drug use by college students.  He is also the Assistant Director of Health and Wellness for Alcohol and Other Drug Education in the Division of Student Life, working with different areas across campus (including health, counseling, Greek life, residence life, and athletics) to increase student access to evidence-based approaches. 

Mary E. Larimer, Ph.D.

Dr. Mary Larimer is a Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors at the University of Washington. Dr. Larimer received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from UW in 1992. She served as part of the intervention development team and one of the original therapists in the first randomized clinical trial of the BASICS intervention (Marlatt et al. 1998), and since then has continued to serve as a BASICS therapist, clinical supervisor, and trainer in both research and clinical contexts. Dr. Larimer’s primary research interests focus on college drinking prevention, and she is among the nation’s leading experts in this area. She has been continuously funded for more than 2 decades to pursue research on etiology, prevention, and treatment, and has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications focused on these and related topics.

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