Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction

Brief Intervention: Exploring Reasons for Drinking; Building Ambivalence [video 2]

Published: 2020

The clinician asks the patient to identify benefits associated with alcohol use. The clinician then contrasts these felt benefits with the problems noted earlier in order to increase the patient’s ambivalence.

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