Thad Leffingwell

I am a clinical health psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. I completed my graduate training at the University of Washington and pre-doctoral internship at the Puget Sound VA Healthcare System – Seattle. I am a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), having completed intensive training in how to train others in the approach. My research interests include brief motivational interventions for health behavior change and motivational predictors of self-directed and assisted behavior change. I have worked on numerous federal, state and privately funded intervention projects that investigated adaptations of motivational interviewing.

Research Interests:

health, health behavior, substance use, addictions, HIV, sport psychology, motivational interviewing, brief interventions, electronic interventions