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Do You Need Addiction Treatment? Consider Whether Your Lifestyle Matches Your Values? If It Doesn’t…Maybe You Do
Overcoming ambivalence: How does the ‘ideal you’ compare with the ‘current you’? Not sure? Well, take a few minutes to complete the following exercise and find out how far you’ve strayed from the life you’d love to have. If your lifestyle strays too far from your goals and values, you may want to consider serious action to get back on track.
Should You Go to Rehab? Use a Decisional Balancing Exercise to Decide
Think you need rehab or some form of addiction treatment but struggling with ambivalence and indecision? Take 10 minutes to try this cognitive behavioral technique called decisional balancing and you might find it easier to evaluate the pros and cons and to choose the best course of action.
Marijuana Addiction Treatment – An Overview of Effective Programs, Therapies, Medications and Supplements
A complete introduction to marijuana addiction treatment – Find out whether you need it, about treatment options and how to choose the right type and about therapies, medications and supplements that work.
Should You Quit Drinking or Drugs? Find Out with 4 Easy Exercises
Should you or shouldn’t you quit drinking or drugs? Ambivalence is normal, but you’ll feel better once you make a firm decision, one way or the other. Here are 4 easy exercises to help you.
Are You Ready to Quit Drinking? Overcoming Ambivalence to Change
Few people make a decision to quit alcohol for good before resolving feelings of ambivalence about drinking – after all, if there wasn’t something we enjoyed about alcohol then why would anyone ever develop a problem?! Read on to answer a few quick questions that should help you to clarify what is that you like and don’t like about drinking and what it is you’d like and not like about quitting – so that you’ll develop a better idea about whether you are ready to quit for good!
Motivational Interviewing
Your family, friends and employer may all be screaming at you to change your ways – but until you develop a motivation for change that comes from within – lasting recovery is pretty unlikely. Motivational Interviewing is a proven effective form of counseling that helps you to overcome feelings of ambivalence and decide on and commit to a course of action.
Changing Your Life - How to Prepare for Change
Here's how to make that important change. Change is scary but you already have the tools to do it. You are braver than you think. Try this.
Teen Substance Abuse – How The Seven Challenges Program Encourages Authentic Change
You can't force authentic change and you can't control a person's true thoughts and motivations...so maybe you shouldn't even try. Does your adolescent son or daughter need substance abuse treatment or treatment for co-occurring disorders? If so, you may want to look at treatment programs or counselors using the Seven Challenges Program, an evidence based treatment program which encourages honest communication to foster an authentic motivation for change. Read on to learn more about this clinically tested teen program which is now in use in hundreds of facilities nationwide.