Readiness for Change & Motivational Enhancement with Young People & Families

Readiness for Change and Motivational Enhancement with Young People and their Families

Seminal work in stages-of-change modeling has set the foundation and helped treatment and support services to move from one-size-fits all blame/shame programming to stage-wise care matched to these ‘stages of readiness.’ Next generation innovations and further development in our fields have begun to move beyond the ‘linear, cyclical, and categorical’ understandings of change, exploring and embracing the complexities of dynamic, compensatory, and complementary factors that promote – and that hinder– growth and change.

This training reviews the foundational stages-of-change/levels-of-care frameworks, and then introduces integrative and compensatory-complementary models of change (ICMC) that support timely and
responsive adjustments in services and support. Noting similarities and identifying contrasts between categorical and integrative models, this training highlights innovations that promote client centered/client-in-context care while also being effectively applied within categorical, compliance, and
other traditional structured treatment models (In both scenarios, significant outcomes-improvement has been noted).

This training offers practical, in-situ motivational enhancement strategies that are demonstrated effective within individual, group, and family service modalities. Participants will have ample opportunity for application and rehearsal of models and skills, with case vignettes, case presentations/review, and consultation.

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