Clinical Interventions to Enhance Engagement and Reduce Recidivism or Relapse: LIVE WEBINAR

Clinical Interventions to Enhance Engagement and Reduce Recidivism or Relapse focuses on engagement and intervention strategies to reduce recidivism and relapse, and achieve enhanced outcomes for those clients susceptible to relapse or recidivism including clients coerced or mandated to treatment; clients who have relapsed or recidivated and are returning to treatment; clients feeling hopeless or disparaged; and clients with a history of addiction or codependency. Clients returning to treatment will often experience an intervention similar to the one that did not work originally, and thus treatment will fail again. Clinicians and clients need to understand relapse or recidivism as feedback rather than failure, and thus create new treatment protocols based on that client's "agenda" and what works for that client. The first priority is to move beyond feelings of hopelessness and build a collaborative relationship with an expectation of success for both the client and the treatment provider, which can be complicated because of a history of failure, dynamics and features around referral or re-referral for clients coerced or mandated to treatment, and issues with a referral source. 

You will hear about the building blocks of collaboration, hope, and an expectancy of success; collaborative engagement with coerced or mandated clients; how to identify subtle change that is already happening for clients; challenges with structured clinical models; assessing and working within varying levels of client cooperation; identifying the difference between compliance, temporary change, and authentic lasting change; and language and words that are a catalyst for change versus language and words that sabotage change. To accomplish authentic, lasting change, the treatment provider needs to introduce a client-need driven approach and strategies with tools that are compatible with the agenda, culture, and "philosophy of change" of the client. Merely “telling” a client what to do will rarely if ever result in authentic, permanent change.

We will look at actual verbatim interventions with real clients: Angie, who was feeling defeated and hopeless, and coerced to attend therapy; Johnny, who relapsed and thought he had lost his wife and children forever; Sarah, who relapsed and came to treatment believing that she was no better than her mother and thus not worthy to parent her daughter; and Michelle, whose recidivism and battle with codependency led her to conclude that she had to take control of her life. Client case studies are from the book, Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues: A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes, published internationally by Routledge/A Taylor and Francis Group, October 2023.

Presented by: Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC

Saul A. Singer, LMFT, LCADC, AADC, has worked for five decades as a behavioral health and addiction professional providing therapy, consultation, continuing education, college instruction, and clinical supervision in private practice and for community agencies and treatment programs. Author of Brief Therapy for Clients with Challenging or Unique Issues: A Clinician’s Guide to Enhancing Outcomes, a 2023 internationally published book that weaves together the stories of courageous clients and offers innovative tools that empower and motivate even the most reluctant clients to engage and identify solutions that fit for them.

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