Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Part 1 (5 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course is Part 1 of a two-part series exploring strategies for increasing motivation to change substance use behaviors. The five stages in the SOC model are highlighted including precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Motivational counseling and various interventions that can help strengthen client commitment to change are explored. This course includes Chapter 1- A New Look at Motivation, Chapter 2- Motivational Counseling and Brief Intervention, Chapter 3- Motivational Interviewing as a Counseling Style, and Chapter 4- From Precontemplation to Contemplation: Building Readiness.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and it is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Reading: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Chapters 1-4
Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Adminstration
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by exploring strategies to increase motivation for change in substance use disorder treatment.
Learning Objectives: Identify the five stages of the SOC model. Describe the FRAMES approach. Provide examples of change talk and sustain talk. Describe the core counseling skills of motivational interviewing (MI). Identify counseling strategies for precontemplation.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 5 clinical continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.