Lesson 21: Motivation: Slide  13

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Increase Your Motivation To Change By:

  • Decreasing desirability of continued drug and alcohol use by:
  • Identify positive and negative incentives for continuing alcohol or drug abuse
  • Identify positive and negative incentives for not using
  • Work to tip the balance in favor of positive change
  • Your tipping point for change will be unique and specific to you

Notes:

Pg. 21-29, “Motivational Interviewing, Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior,” William R. Miller and Stephen Rollick, The Guilford Press, New York, 1991

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