Motivation for Change in Substance Abuse Treatment

Course overview

This course was designed to provide continuing education hours to Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors in the state of Florida. This is a course based on the Treatment Improving Protocol (TIP) Series 35. Students will learn about motivational enhancement strategies that help clients with substance abuse problems increase motivation for change. The five stages of change are addressed together with skills that the clinicians implement to treat clients with presenting substance abuse problems. Students will learn to recognize how to address client ambivalence to change and how to enhance motivation for change in clients.