Effective Drug Rehabilitation

purpose of paper was to basically talk a bout a treatmetn approach and relate it to a certain population. I chose motivational interviewing and did it on college students.

I’ve alreadty submitted it to my professor via email so let me know what you think plzzzz
Some college students have alcohol for different reasons such as social parties, celebrations, and/or stressful events as well. There are many factors that fit in to why college students binge drink for which result in long-term health risks. College students drink a variety of alcoholic beverages from light to heavy alcoholic beverages that increase health risks and psychological health risks such as heart diseases and brain abnormalities. Treatments such as motivational interviewing can help lessen the consumption of alcohol and allow the college students who binge drink to slowly recover from this disease they have developed of binge drinking. Motivational interviewing is an effective treatment for college students who drink excessive amounts of alcohol in that it allows a person to freely choose to change their behavior to drink.
Motivational interviewing is a style of counseling that can be used throughout the therapeutic process (Jarvis, Tebbutt, Mattick & Shand, p.45). Since college students struggle with changing their habits and making a decision to change motivational drinking is a good technique in helping them with that problem. Binge drinking is a common problem that many college students are facing throughout their college lives. There are many alcoholic specific treatments that offer a wide range of help to allow those who suffer from binge drinking to be able to recovery from the alcoholic abuse. Yet, motivational interviewing can be used to begin the process of thinking about changing their ways on drinking (Jarvis, Tebbutt, Mattick & Shand, p.45). Motivational interviewing allows a person to no longer drink anymore and resolve standing issues that cause them to drink in the first place. Motivational interviewing will allow oneself to make his or her own choices in deciding to stop excessive drinking patterns and set a plan to change the alcoholic behavior.
The key to motivational interviewing is to give motivation and offer some hope to your client in order for them to change their ways on drinking. There are certain types of styles of listening when using this technique of motivational interviewing treatment. One is empathy in where the therapist puts themselves in the same position as the patients and allows a relationship to develop with the client, which can allow the client to change (Jarvis, Tebbutt, Mattick & Shand, p.46). The goal for motivational interviewing is to have your client talk about deciding to change the use of alcohol. Traditional confrontations methods such as offensive tactics that are both unhelpful and counter-protective in getting the client to change and therefore motivational interviewing avoids and confrontational tactics (Jarvis, Tebbutt, Mattick & Shand, p.46).
Findings show how alcohol has its downfall with individuals and the outcomes for it are hazardous. Means comparisons indicated that both groups showed reductions in alcohol-related problems, however, only the Motivational Interviewing sample evidenced significant reductions in binge drinking (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). Misuse of alcohol can lead to a wide range of consequences, the most severe being alcohol abuse, dependence, and death (Devos-Comby, L. & Lange, J., 2008). The median number of drinks in a row that a college man or women must have to be called a binge drinker is 6 for a man and 5 for a woman (Wechsler, H., & Kuo, M. (2000).
Treatments such as motivational interviewing can benefit specifically college students who drink alcohol in sororities or fraternities that, binge drink.
There are a couple of successful ways in which binge drinking can be helped. Findings show that more education and provision of coping skills training during treatment may influence self-efficacy by increasing the coping resources of a patient with SUD (McKellar, Ilgen & Moos, 2008). The method to motivational interviewing is to have direct listening skills with the patient in that you listen well to what the patient says and give positive feedback to the person (Jarvis, Tebbutt, Mattick & Shand, p.47). Also
The present findings suggest that individuals who report the greatest initial improvements in alcohol-related problems and impulsivity may have difficulty maintaining a high level of self-efficacy (McKellar, Ilgen & Moos, 2008). One brief intervention, motivational interviewing (MI) has shown efficacy in reducing alcohol-related problems in college samples (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). When compared with MI, other interventions have also reduced student drinking, necessitating the inclusion of a control condition when evaluating MI (motivational interviewing) (Feldstein, S., & Forcehimes, A., 2007). While par