Internal Motivation to Change and the Good Lives Model with Adolescents and Young Men

Despite years of effort, research, and practice, how and why people change is still little understood. This training will examine how motivation works and how professionals can elicit clients’ internal motivations to make difficult changes in their lives. To this end, the Good Lives Model (GLM) is a strengths-based rehabilitation practice framework that augments the risk, need, and responsivity principles of effective correctional intervention through its focus on assisting clients to develop and implement meaningful life plans that are incompatible with future offending. While much has been w...Read moreritten on the GLM, this workshop focuses on how the GLM –properly adapted – can be used with adolescents and young men. This training closely examines many of its individual tenets (e.g., approach goals, primary human goods). Consideration is given to family involvement and how the etiology of harmful behaviors often results from challenges in attaining goals that are common to all human beings. Less...

Learning Objectives

• Describe the primary human goods in the Good Lives Model.
• Explain the linkage between risk factors and approach-oriented treatment goals.
• Utilize “approach goals” in treatment.

Target Audience

Learning Levels

• Advanced to intermediate

Saturday, August 20, 2022

11:00 AM EDT - 02:15 PM EDT