HBRT Director Mary M. Velasquez has published a new book, Reframing Failure in Behavioral Health, with co-author Carlo DiClemente. Synthesizing decades of research, the book gives clinicians a practical framework for using setbacks as opportunities to strengthen long-term behavior change across substance use, chronic disease, and other health conditions.
Velasquez is also the author of four influential books on motivational interventions and behavior change, including Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages-of-Change Therapy and Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change, and Women and Drinking: Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies.
She is an internationally recognized leader in screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), motivational interviewing (MI), and implementation science, with more than 30 years of experience developing, evaluating, and disseminating evidence-based behavioral health interventions. Dr. Velasquez is also a founding member of the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), and the inaugural Lori Holleran Steiker Endowed Faculty Chair in Substance Use and Recovery at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work.