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[Episode 105] Today's Social Work Podcast is about Recovery High Schools. I spoke with Dr. Lori Holleran Steiker, Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin�s School of Social Work, and author of the 2016 book,  Youth and Substance Use:  Prevention, Intervention and Recovery .  We talk about risk factors for addiction, adolescent brain development, how to think about addiction from a biopsychosocial-spiritual perspective, why recovery or sober high schools fit an essential gap in the continuum of care for youth struggling with drugs and alcohol and how you can help to bring one to your community. We end our conversation with Lori making an impassioned plea to join the fight against adolescent addiction. Download MP3 [50:48] Bio Lori K. Holleran Steiker, Ph.D., ACSW, an addictions therapist turned educator/scholar, is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. She graduated from Duke University, got...

[Episode 84] Today's episode of the Social Work Podcast is about Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition . In today's episode I speak with Mary Velasquez, Ph.D., Centennial Professor in Leadership for Community, Professional and Corporate Excellence and Director of the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Velasquez is a trainer for the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and has been involved in research that informed the changes to Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition. In today's interview Mary talks about how she became involved with Motivational Interviewing, what has changed and stayed the same in the revised version of Motivational Interviewing, DARN CATS, the four change processes, and how people can experience Motivational Interviewing in less than 15 minutes.  Download MP3 [49:51] Bio  (from UT-Austin School of Social Work faculty page) Dr. Mary Marden Velasquez is the Centennial Professor in ...