This 127-page manual is intended to provide guidance to the substance-abuse treatment counselor working in public-sector settings who wants to use motivational techniques in a group treatment modality.

The ideas and exercises in this book help clinicians integrate Motivational Interviewing and Stages-of-Change into daily practice. This book is a practical and effective resource for individual and group sessions, adolescents, families, culturally diverse clients, and dually diagnosed clients.

A must-read for anyone interested in using Motivational Interviewing (MI) to facilitate change with individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions. Miller and Rollnick explain how to use MI to work through ambivalence to facilitate change. They present detailed guidelines for using their approach.

The Readiness Ruler is a helpful tool to support the use of Motivational Interviewing (MI), the evidence-based treatment. MI is a conversational approach designed to help people discover their own interest in considering and/or making a change in their lives. Carry the Readiness Ruler in your pocket and use its zero-to-10 scales to begin or continue the conversation about change.

This original 19-track audio CD provides an introduction to the spirit of Motivational Interviewing (MI), the evidence-based treatment. MI is a conversational approach designed to help people discover their own interest in considering and/or making a change in their lives. Topics on this CD include substance abuse, clinical supervision, much more. Free .mp3 files available.

$0, Free | TIP 35 embraces a fundamentally different way to conceptualize motivation, which is viewed as a dynamic and changeable state rather than a static trait. It also describes different motivational interventions that can be used at all stages-of-change. This publication is part of SAMHSA's "Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series."