 The recently-emerging recovery-oriented approach to serious mental illness reflects a fundamental shift from a focus on symptom reduction to a focus on patients goals and community functioning. Developing treatments for negative symptoms to augment community functioning is a strong reflection of this shift. Importantly, preliminary research suggests that motivational negative symptoms respond to novel evidence-based psychosocial interventions. The primary goal of this proposal is to adapt and implement a recovery-oriented evidence-based intervention, Motivational Interviewing MI, for the treatment of motivational negative symptoms in Veterans with SCZ. MI, originally developed for substance use disorders, is effective to increase commitment to new behaviors in a range of areas including treatment adherence, exercise, gambling, and depression. Importantly, it has been shown to be applicable to Veterans with psychosis, but it is not known if MI can reduce functional deficits that are attributable to motivational negative symptoms. 