Using Personalized Feedback and Brief Motivational Interviewing techniques are essential to changing campus culture.
The course is non-judgmental, emphasizes personal responsibility, and provides anonymity for honest self-reflection. Students respond positively to this type of intervention because the information is practical, relevant and geared toward the youth culture.
Scott Walters, a noted alcohol researcher at University of Texas School of Public Health states,
" A number of studies show that people tend to respond to interventions that provide feedback, are empathic and nonjudgmental, emphasize personal responsibility, and give people several options for how they would like to go about changing their drinking. Interventions that have these elements are more likely to reduce drinking. Effective computer interventions basically pull from these common elements. In fact, many drinkers seem to prefer this format. It's a way to save face, and drinkers can begin to look at their drinking in a private and nonjudgmental way “.
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