Clinical Applications of Motivational Strategies
A 3 hour course designed to review a variety of practical clinical strategies and treatment system interventions that can help improve compliance among clients with substance abuse or dual disorders.  This course is the second of two courses based on the original work "Improving Treatment Compliance . . . .Counseling & Systems Strategies for Substance Abuse and Dual Disorder" published by Hazelden Information and Educational Services.

 Goals/Objectives

By participating in this Distance Learning Course the trainee will:

  1. Learn about a motivational approach to improving treatment compliance.
  2. Understand client resistance.
  3. Apply motivational strategies to the various stages of the treatment spectrum, from pretreatment, through transition, through early recovery.
  4. Explore the shift of thinking needed to allow counselors to implement motivational strategies.
  5. Learn to target specific issues of clients' motivation for treatment and change.


Your Course Instructors:
Dennis C. Daley and Allan Zuckoff
Trainers, Authors, Clinicians

Dennis C. Daley, M.S.W., is director of the Center for Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Services and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh. Daley has been involved in managing and providing treatment services for people with alcohol and other drug problems and dual disorders for over two decades. He has written over 125 publications including journal articles, books, clinical manuals, client workbooks, and recovery guides. Daley has authored numerous Hazelden publications including Dual Disorders: Counseling Clients with Chemical Dependency and Mental Illness; Celebrating Small Victories; A Family Guide to Dual Disorders; Coping with Dual Disorders; Preventing Relapse (workbook); Understanding Major Anxiety Disorders and Addiction (workbook); Understanding Bipolar Disorder and Addiction (workbook); Understanding Depression and Addiction (workbook); Understanding Personality Problems and Addiction (workbook); and Understanding Schizophrenia and Addiction (pamphlet and workbook). He teaches on these subjects throughout the United States and other countries. Daley is also involved in several federally funded research projects on treatment of cocaine addiction and treatment of dual disorders. Daley authored the highly successful Living Sober I and Living Sober II Interactive Videotape Series and the Promise of Recovery Educational Videotape Series.

Allan Zuckoff, M.A., is a clinical supervisor and co-director of training at the Center for Psychiatric and Chemical Dependency Services, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is a trainer in Motivational Interviewing and is currently directing the training and supervision of therapists for federally funded studies of the application of the motivational approach to substance dependence and depression and to HIV risk-reduction. He has also been a supportive-expressive psychotherapist for a multi-site study of psychosocial treatments for cocaine addiction. Zuckoff has led workshops on a range of topics related to substance abuse and dual-disorders treatment, and he provides consultation on motivational interventions to a number of agencies. He is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at Duquesne University and an adjunct instructor at Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.