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READINESS FOR CHANGE Burke AC; Gregoire TK. (2007). USA The relationships of coerced care to post treatment substance use and addiction severity. 289 participants in five large outpatient programs. Prospective study of substance abuse treatment outcomes. The findings are based on analyses for the 141 (48.8 percent of the original sample) individuals who completed a six-month follow-up interview using the short form of the Addiction Severity Index. Controlling for two important factors: readiness to change and addiction severity at admission to treatment. Interview Legally coerced participants were more likely than coerced participants to report abstaining from alcohol and other drugs in the 30 days before their follow-up interview. They were also more likely to demonstrate reduced addiction severity at Readiness to change at admission showed no relation to treatment outcomes. Gregoire TK; Burke AC.(2004) USA Examined the relationship between legal coercion and Readiness to Change. 295 consecutive admissions to five publicly funded outpatient treatment programs Addiction Severity Index and readiness to change scale. Persons entering treatment due to legal coercion were over three times more likely to have engaged in recovery-oriented behaviour in the month preceding admission. That legal coercion was associated with greater readiness to change after controlling for addiction severity, prior treatment history, and gender. Marlowe DB; Merikle EP; Kirby KC; Festinger DS; McLellan AT. (2001). USA Investigate why a client may be motivated to change, and suggest how retain an unmotivated client in treatment. interviewed 415 substance abuse clients Exploratory cluster analysis yielded five types of clients characterised by different profiles of perceived treatment-entry pressures. Interviews Cluster membership was predictive of treatment outcomes, and the clusters differed by demographic variables. These data support the discriminative and predictive utility of performing a multidimensional assessment of pressures to enter treatment. To establish reasons for entering treatment and scored the responses along the dimensions of (a) negative versus positive treatment-entry pressures, (b) internal versus external sources of those pressures, and (c) the life domain from which the pressures emanated.