Describe the process and goals of motivational enhancement therapy. Be sure to include the concept of denial and also stages of change in your answer
What will be an ideal response?
Attempts to shift the focus away from denial and toward motivation to change. An interview establishes the level of drinking or drug use, associated problems, and the client's current stage of change (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, or maintenance) regarding the substance use. Avoiding confrontation or telling the client what to do, the interviewer discusses the information about amount of use and problems to lead the client toward the next stage of change. This is used partly to prepare the client for entry into some other form of treatment.
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a. the planning process in language production tends to stay one word ahead of the spoken utterance. b. there may be mental processes that detect and edit potential speech errors. c. errors involving blends of words are unlikely to occur. d. spoonerisms are less likely when the error will result in a real word.
The store model of information processing focuses on __________ as information flows __________
A) general units of cognitive functioning; sequentially B) mechanisms of cognitive change; arithmetically C) Piaget's stages; in an evolutionary manner D) the evolutionary perspective; sequentially