Telephone Monitoring and Adaptive Counseling (TMAC)
Program/Intervention Name
Telephone Monitoring and Adaptive Counseling (TMAC)
Category
Substance Abuse
Program/Intervention Description
Designed to follow a client's initial stabilization in a 3- to 4-week intensive outpatient treatment program. Goals of the program are to reinforce abstinence, lengthen the time to possible relapse, and shorten relapse episodes when they do occur. Combines elements of low-intensity monitoring, social support, and adaptive levels of motivational interviewing (MI) counseling and cognitive-behavorial therapy (CBT) dependent on the client's risk level for relapse.
Intervention Target Population Identified (Age Group)
Parent/Adult
Program Goals/Outcomes
Goals of the program are to reinforce abstinence, lengthen the time to possible relapse, and shorten relapse episodes when they do occur.
QIC Target Group
General - 3
QIC Adoption/Guardianship Relevance Levels
LEVEL 6: General Population
QIC level of Evidence
LEVEL 2: Supported by Research
Intervention Web Site/URL
Contact Person/Purveyor
Deborah Van Horn, PhD (implementation) James R. McKay, PhD (research)
Agency/Affiliation
University of Pennsylvania
Contact Email
dvh@mail.med.upenn.edu
Contact Phone
(856) 905-5261 (215) 746-7704
External Links (Registry/Other Catalog)
Attachments
- Intervention Citation Sheet: InterventionCitations.pdf
