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Changing negative motivation to positive motivation.(Road to Recovery)
From:
Addiction Professional
| Date:
March 1, 2005| Author:
Roes, Nicholas A.
| COPYRIGHT 2005 Vendome Group LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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Both negative and positive motivation can be very helpful to our clients, but developing positive motivation is a prerequisite of quality sobriety.
When we are negatively motivated, we move away from something we are averse to. We try as best we can to avoid pain and discomfort, and this is often very helpful to us. We are negatively motivated to flee a burning building, for example, because we want to avoid the smoke and flames.
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