Lesson 21: Motivation: Slide 28
Approach Avoidance Conflict
- Addiction is a classic example
of approach avoidance conflict
- “I can’t live with it, I can’t live
without it” types of conflict
- Approach avoidance conflict is the most difficult type of conflict to resolve for all people
- It has the greatest potential for keeping people stuck and creating stress
- Ambivalent thoughts, emotions and behaviors are normal in recovery and they can be positively managed and resolved
Notes:
Pg. 40-41, “Motivational Interviewing, Preparing People to Change Addictive Behavior,” William R. Miller and Stephen Rollick, The Guilford Press, New York, 1991
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