Enhancing Readiness-to-Change Substance Abuse in Persons with Schizophrenia
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Enhancing readiness-to-change substance abuse in persons with schizophrenia. A four-session motivation-based intervention.
This article describes a four-session intervention designed for persons with co-occurring substance abuse and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, to be administered as an add-on module to supplement ongoing mental health treatment in an outpatient setting. The intervention targets those dually diagnosed individuals with low readiness-to-change as indicated by current use, and/or low level of enga...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavior Modification
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0145-4455,1552-4167
DOI: 10.1177/0145445501253001