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This 15-hour course
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
At the completion of this course
participants will be able to:
- 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, to interact with substance-using
clients, helping them resolve issues related to their ambivalence;
- Address
the five stages of change and provide guidelines for clinicians to tailor
their treatment to clients' stages of readiness for change;
- Identify various
tools and instruments used to measure components of change;
- Identify methods
for integrating motivational
approaches into existing treatment programs;
- Recognize directions
for future research.
Your Course Instructor:
Richard L. Brown
MD, MPH
Richard L. Brown, MD, MPH, is a tenured Associate Professor in the
Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical
School. His research, teaching, and publications reflect his long-standing
interest in alcohol and drug abuse. He has served as a consultant to several
managed care organizations providing assistance in the designof alcohol
screening and intervention programs for managed health care systems. He is a
past president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in
Substance Abuse (see www.amersa.org). He
is now directing the HRSA-AMERSA Interdisciplinary Project to Improve Health
Professional Education on Substance Abuse.
Dr. Brown also served
on the Editorial Advisory Board for Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP)
Series 35, Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment. |