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I think we have all asked ourselves before, “How easy would this be if they would just do what I say?” As if we know how best to live our clients’ lives. It’...

Congratulations! Because of your finetuned Motivational Interviewing skills and strategies, your client has moved to the Contemplation Stage. At this stage, w...

By: Pamela Carrisalez Consider the people on your journey in life who helped you walk through some painful, devastating, and stormy situations. You were feel...

Action is the stage of change where people believe they not only have the ability to change but are actively involved in taking steps to change their maladap...

Chapter 8 in Tip 35 recognizes; “motivation as multidimensional, not a single domain that can be easily measured with one instrument or scale. Clients are of...

David Mee-Lee, M.D., talked about Universal Human Needs at the 2011 Unconvention. For those of you unfamiliar with Dr. Mee-Lee, he is a leading expert in co-...

How Do We Address PreContemplating Individuals? Establish Rapport ♦ Build trust first – you may need to begin that with some issue other than the “problem” b...

We have been trained in the Stages of Change and often times experience the clinical dilemma of a client who is in two different stages for two different goa...

David Mee-Lee, M.D., is a leading expert in co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. His monthly “Tips and Topics,” is now in its tenth year of publi...

A reader asked Dr. Mee-Lee for some suggestions/recommendations in providing treatment and relief for the treatment team of a client residing in a rehabilita...

FROM TIPS AND TOPICS BY DAVID MEE-LEE July 30, 2014 David Mee-Lee explained that doctors that work in addiction may not agree as much as one would think on a...

The article provided by Dr. Mee-Lee encouraged us to continuously improve our trauma-informed treatment of those we serve. There were simple strategies liste...

Dr. Mee-Lee explained that he was recently providing training on Motivational Interviewing and explaining a situation in which a person was ambivalent about ...