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BOOK REVIEW
Handbook of Motivational Counseling: Concepts, Approaches and Assessment. Edited by W. Miles Cox and Eric Klinger. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2003. £75. 538pgs. ISBN 0-470-84517-1.
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Amid the worldwide popularity of motivational interviewing in both treatment and scientific circles over the last decade or more, there is another approach to motivational intervention in substance use disorders that has gone relatively unnoticed. This is the Systematic Motivational Counseling (SMC) approach developed by Miles Cox and Eric Klinger in the late 1980s. This book updates