Carrie Wilkens PhD is a psychologist and co-Founder of the Center for Motivation and Change, President of the CMC: Foundation for Change, and co-author of Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family & Friends - a practical and compassionate approach for helping your loved one change.
In this interview Dr. Wilkens shares her insights from over 20 years experience working with families: Find out the most significant predictor of people choosing recovery for substance use and why it’s so important for family members to learn new ways of being so they can be more effective at helping their loved one choose recovery.
Learn how The Invitation to Change approach is effective at helping us stay connected to our loved one who is struggling with substances. and that contrary to popular belief, people who use substances are not bad, selfish, crazy, and amoral.
Discover the importance of understanding why someone uses substances and how that can lead to greater compassion and empathy.
Most people will never seek treatment for their substance use and will still recover. Treatment isn’t the only answer and it’s actually not how most people change. There are many paths to recovery so it’s important to think beyond just treatment.
Website motivationandchange.com
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