Encourage Patient Recovery
Recovering from addiction is difficult, as many individuals with alcohol or drug dependency fail to recognize their own patterns of abuse, or have ambivalent feelings about seeking treatment. In substance abuse treatment, the patient’s motivation to change has often been a source of frustration, since counsellors have little control over a patient’s desire to change.
The counselling community is rethinking current approaches to motivation, by empowering the counsellor to elicit and enhance motivation, and to find a style that will best meet the needs