Clinical Applications of Motivational Strategies (3 hours)

About This Course Your Course Instructor Course Formats This 3 hour course by Dennis Daley is 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: Learn about a motivational approach to improving treatment compliance. Understand client resistance. Apply motivational strategies to the various stages of the treatment spectrum, from pretreatment, through transition, through early recovery. Explore the shift of thinking needed to allow counselors to implement motivational strategies. Learn to target specific issues of clients' motivati