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addiction services/ outpatient

motivation program

Who: A motivational program is designed for young adults and adolescents, who have ambivalent feelings towards drug use and need support to evaluate their situations, and possibly consider entering a drug treatment program. (Program offered in Canada)

How: The motivation approach is typically centered on the person. Its goal is to help the person understand and solve his own ambivalent, contradictory feelings about the use of alcohol or other drugs.

The therapist is dedicated to supporting and leading the person in a process of behavior change, leading him through the various stages of change, which are as follows:

1. "I have no problem, therefore I don’t need to make any change in my behavior";
2. "I know I've got a problem, but I'm not ready to change";
3. "I'm ready to change and I'm considering how I can do it.";
4. "I am changing my behaviors";
5. "I’ve made changes in my behaviors, and I’m trying to maintain them".

Why: As its name implies, the motivation program aims at helping people take decisions and strengthen their own motivation to change a behavior and break a well-rooted, negative habit. The objectives of the program are therefore necessarily individual and may include achieving abstinence, reducing one's consumption, improving social relationships, and other important personal objectives.