Incorporating Coaching Techniques in Therapy with System Involved, Substance Using Young People

Robert Dousa

Training Description

One of the most significant challenges for clinicians these days is to effectively engage patients and clients away from the use of substances and process addiction behaviors into constructive, transformational behaviors that are sustainable, and lead to healthy engagement with their community. We will learn how coaching can deepen our effectiveness with our patients and clients and explore implementation of situational coaching leadership techniques and strengths finding practices, to support system involved, substance using people towards self-advocacy.

Learning Objective

• Participants will learn to be more effective at assessing their patients and clientswhen coaching life skills to support healthier behaviors.

• Participants will explore and practice coaching techniques from Situational Leadership (Blanchard, K. Zigami, D. Hersey, P., 2011) to support their clients to successfully master new behaviors.