Motivational Enhancement Therapy in an Alcohol Addiction Treatment
May 2, 2008
There are many ways of treating an alcohol habit today without the patient needing to go into an alcohol rehab centre. One of these therapies is the motivational enhancement therapy, which is basically a counseling therapy that works with proper intervention to pull the person out of the addiction.
The motivational enhancement therapy can actually be used as a treatment mode of its own or as an adjunct to an intensive detox and rehab program, which is done in cases of very severe addictions. However, for mild addictions, the motivational enhancement therapy can be used as a standalone therapy in its own right.The first step of this therapy is to encourage the patients to give up their alcohol habit. This is easier said than done, but the therapists will enlist the help of family and friends and properly train them on what they must say and how they must behave with the patient so that he or she overcomes the denial phase and agrees to get into the treatment. Once this initial phase is overcome, the therapist will counsel the patient about alcoholism, its ill-effects on health and how it can be removed from the patient’s life completely. These morale building sessions may be conducted two to four times, depending on need. During this period, most ambivalent patients will make up their minds about continuing treatment.
With this part over, the therapist now focuses on counseling the patient on various methods in which alcohol can be completely removed from his or her life. With an able therapist, alcohol addicts are known to have embarked on a lifelong journey of healthy abstinence from the alcohol addiction. The therapist will also monitor other health conditions throughout the treatment, especially for signs of withdrawal.
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