Creating Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment (15 hours)

About This Course Your Course Instructor Course Formats This 15 hour course by Richard L. Brown will help link research to practice by providing clear applications of motivational approaches in clinical practice and treatment programs. This course seeks to shift the conception of client motivation for change toward a view that empowers the treatment provider to elicit motivation. These approaches may be especially beneficial to particular populations (e.g., court-mandated offenders) with a low motivation for change. Goals/Objectives By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will: Understand how the concepts of motivation and change have evolved in recent years and describes the "stages-of-change" model, developed by Prochaska and DiClemente. Identify interventions that can enhance clients' motivation, highlight their effective elements, and link them to the stages-of-change model. Recognize aspects of motivational interviewing, developed by Miller and Rollnick,