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Mary Marden Velasquez, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research & Professor Director, Center for Social Work Research Director, Health Behavior Research and Training Institute

School of Social Work: Room 3.208GA Mailing Address: University of Texas School of Social Work 1 University Station D3510 Austin, TX 78712-0359 Phone: (512) 471-7019 Fax: 471-9514 E-Mail: velasquez@mail.utexas.edu

Professional Interests

Development and implementation of interventions using the Transtheoretical Model of Change and Motivational Interviewing, health behavior interventions including HIV prevention, prenatal health, alcohol and other substance abuse, smoking cessation, and prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Education

• Ph.D., The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health
• M.A., University of Houston-Clear Lake
• B.S., University of Houston-Clear Lake

Teaching

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:30 and 5:30-6:00 and by appointment

Visit the School's Electronic Classroom for course list and syllabi.

Research Projects

Completed projects have the year of completion.

• How Does Motivational Interviewing Work? Mechanisms of Action in Project CHOICES (2010)
• Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT / InSight) (2009)
• Statewide Motivational Interviewing for Texas Department of State Health Services (2009)
• The Georgia-Texas Improving Brief Intervention Project (2008)
• UTMB-UT Austin Collaboration: Translating Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions into Community Practice (2008)
• A Transtheoretical Model Group Therapy For Cocaine (2007)
• Smoking Relapse Prevention Among Postpartum Women (2007)