During program development, we considered including a
component to the BI that involved challenging the client's
perceived norms regarding adolescent drug use. Whereas
this element has shown to be an important feature of
effective BIs for college student problem drinkers (Larimer
& Cronce, 2002), its use in BIs for drug-abusing adolescents
has been questioned (Levy et al., 2010). In addition, many of
consultants to the project advised against using this
component. Thus, we chose to not include this content in
the intervention.