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Motivational Enhancement Therapy

(Alcohol, Marijuana, Nicotine)

Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) is a therapy which is patient-centric. The counseling approach is for starting a behavior change in individuals by helping them about the ambivalence of getting involved in a treatment and for stopping drug abuse. The approach clearly follows strategies which rapidly evoke an internal change in the person, rather than helping the patients and guiding them through a stepwise process to recovery. The therapy consists of initial battery assessment, and also stimulates the discussion about the personal use of substances and also eliciting self-motivational statements. These Motivational interviewing principles come to use in order to bolster the motivation and give the patients hope about the plan for change. The coping with such high risk situations are suggested and discussed as well with the patient in detail. In the forthcoming sessions, the therapist also monitors and pushes for the change , reviews the cessation strategies in use, and thereby also continues to encourage the commitment towards the proposed change or strong continuous abstinence. Patients are also encouraged and asked to bring along with them, their counterpart, or their better half, to the treatment sessions.

MET Research suggests that the effects of this type of therapy totally depends of the type of drug consumed by the patients and also on the goal of the successful intervention. The approach has been successfully adapted with the alcohol addicts as well. This helps them improve in both the treatment engagement as well as the outcome of such treatments (Eg. Reducing the problems associated with drinking alcohol). MET has also tasted success with cognitive-behavioral therapy, which comprises of a much more comprehensive approach to the treatment. The results given by the MET are indeed a mixed bag for the patients abusing other drugs (for eg. Heroine, nicotine, etc) and also for the adolescents who intend to use these other drugs also get involved in more than one drug at a time. In general, the MET definitely seems to be much more efficient for involving drug abusers in a treatment rather than for producing drug use changes in them.