Using a Brief Intervention to Motivate Clients to Get Help

Using research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Tracy Stecker, Ph.D., applies cognitive-behavioural therapy to a sixty-minute brief intervention that has widespread applications in a variety of settings---from primary care facilities to intake call centres and military outlets to school counselling departments and parole offices.

This manual and CD-ROM with reproducible client handouts feature everything professionals need to motivate and increase treatment-seeking among clients, including:

a clear step-by-step protocol
an outline of solutions to problems that may arise during the intervention
case examples of successful interventions
the Perceptions about Services Scale (PASS) for those with mental health concerns
the Modifying Perceptions about Services Scale (iMPASS) for those with addiction concerns