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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United States Leader Award
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  • 2007 - Oskar Pfister Award, American Psychiatric Association (APA)

Overview

William R. Miller is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their research primarily contributes to the field of psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and related subfields including developmental and educational psychology, epidemiology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as sociology and political science.

Their work covers several main topics, emphasizing counseling, therapy, and family dynamics, psychotherapy techniques and applications, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, educational and psychological assessments, behavioral and psychological studies, transactional analysis in psychotherapy, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

William R. Miller has authored multiple papers in various academic venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • The evolution of motivational interviewing, 2023, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
  • Why Motivational Interviewing Is a Person-Centered Approach, 2024, SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice
  • The impact of free choice in alcohol treatment. Primary outcomes of the self-match study, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Hal Arkowitz (1941-2019), 2021, American Psychologist

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include Stephen Rollnick, Morten Ellegaard Hell, Bent Nielsen, Anna Mejldal, and Anette Søgaard Nielsen.

The main publication venues for their work are:

  • Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
  • SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • American Psychologist
  • Insight

Among the distinctions received, William R. Miller was awarded the Oskar Pfister Award by the American Psychiatric Association in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Motivational interviewing: preparing people for change.

    William R. Miller;Stephen Rollnick

  • Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior

    William R. Miller;Stephen Rollnick

  • Motivational interviewing: Preparing people for change, 2nd ed.

    William R. Miller;Stephen Rollnick

  • Motivational interviewing: helping people change

    William R. Miller;Stephen Rollnick

  • Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior

    Stephen Rollnick;William R. Miller;Christopher Collett Butler

  • Brief interventions for alcohol problems: a review

    T. H. Bien;William R. Miller;J. S. Tonigan

  • What is Motivational Interviewing

    Stephen Rollnick;William R. Miller

  • Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions for Alcohol Dependence: The COMBINE Study: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Raymond F. Anton;Stephanie S. O’Malley;Domenic A. Ciraulo;Ron A. Cisler

  • Motivational Interviewing with Problem Drinkers

    William R. Miller

  • Toward a Theory of Motivational Interviewing

    William R. Miller;Gary S. Rose

  • Spirituality, religion, and health. An emerging research field.

    William R. Miller;Carl E. Thoresen

  • Letrozole Is More Effective Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy Than Tamoxifen for ErbB-1– and/or ErbB-2–Positive, Estrogen Receptor–Positive Primary Breast Cancer: Evidence From a Phase III Randomized Trial

    Matthew J. Ellis;Andrew Coop;Baljit Singh;Louis Mauriac

  • A randomized trial of methods to help clinicians learn motivational interviewing.

    William R. Miller;Carolina E. Yahne;Theresa B. Moyers;James Martinez

  • Ten Things that Motivational Interviewing Is Not

    William R. Miller;Stephen Rollnick

  • Assessing drinkers' motivation for change: The Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES).

    William R. Miller;J. Scott Tonigan

  • Enhancing motivation for change in problem drinking: A controlled comparison of two therapist styles.

    W R Miller;R G Benefield;J S Tonigan

  • Mesa Grande: a methodological analysis of clinical trials of treatments for alcohol use disorders.

    William R. Miller;Paula L. Wilbourne

  • A standard curve based method for relative real time PCR data processing

    Alexey Larionov;Andreas Krause;William Miller

  • Client commitment language during motivational interviewing predicts drug use outcomes.

    Paul C. Amrhein;William R. Miller;Carolina E. Yahne;Michael Palmer

  • Depression and learned helplessness in man.

    William R. Miller;Martin E. P. Seligman

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Scott Tonigan
J. Scott Tonigan University of New Mexico
Richard Longabaugh
Richard Longabaugh Brown University
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis M. Donovan University of Washington
Gerard J. Connors
Gerard J. Connors University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Raymond F. Anton
Raymond F. Anton Medical University of South Carolina
Ned L. Cooney
Ned L. Cooney Yale University
G. Alan Marlatt
G. Alan Marlatt University of Washington
Kathleen M. Carroll
Kathleen M. Carroll Yale University
Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Carlo C. DiClemente
Carlo C. DiClemente University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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