Contingency Management Publications

We have more than ten years of experience conducting research on contingency management interventions.

• View a list of Contingency Management-related publications by our team.
• Petry, N. M. (2013). Contingency management for substance abuse treatment: A guide to implementing this evidence-based practice. Routledge. View a sample chapter.
• Visit PubMed Central for a full-text digital archive of  publications that result from research funded by the National Institutes of Health

Contingency Management Manuals and Videos

• Contingency Management: Using Motivational Incentives to Improve Drug Abuse Treatment (Download manual and watch video, Petry and Stitzer, 2002): Available from the Yale Psychotherapy Development Center.
• A Clinician’s Guideline for Implementing Contingency Management (Petry, 2001): Available from the Behavioral Health Recovery Guidelines website.
• A Community Reinforcement Approach: Treating Cocaine Addiction (Higgins and Budney, 1998): This treatment manual includes information on voucher-based contingency management. It is provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• Rating Contingency Management Sessions that Reinforce Abstinence Using the Contingency Management Competence Scale (Ledgerwood and Petry, 2010)
• Contingency Management Competence Scale for Reinforcing Attendance (Petry and Ledgerwood, 2010)

More Information

More information on contingency management is available on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices website.