Development of a stepped-care cognitive-behavioral motivational model for college students with alcohol problems

Outcome deta research from international surveys, on college students report that alcohol problems in colleges are an emergent health concern. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a stepped-care cognitive-behavioral motivational model for college students with alcohol problems, that includes three specific treatment programs, ''BASICS'', ''GSC'', and ''SRP'', which are part of the state-of-the-art cognitive-behavioral motivational treatments to address a broad spectrum of drinking problems available in centers for alcohol problems at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. A modified version of the stepped-care approach and strategies of treatment-client matching were used-to. select patients for the treatment programs. This article describes the model and its programs and the initial outcome data from a study designed to evaluate its efficacy on a group of college students that address a broad spectrum of alcohol problems and its future perspectives.