Integrating Responsive Motivational Interviewing With Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Direct and Indirect Effects on Interpersonal Outcomes

Responsively adding motivational interviewing (MI) to cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has outperformed CBT alone on follow-up worry reduction (Westra, Constantino, & Antony, 2016), with this long-term effect on the cardinal feature of worry being mediated by less patient midtreatment resistance in MI-CBT (Constantino, Westra, Antony, & Coyne, 2019). Insofar as GAD can also be marked by interpersonal …