A TREATMENT MATCHING MODEL FOR SUBSTANCE-ABUSE REHABILITATION CLIENTS

Rehabilitation clients enter treatment for alcohol and other drug abus e at various stages of readiness to change. Some clients are well awar e of their problems and claim they are ready to work on them. Others d o not even agree that they have problems, feel coerced to enter treatm ent, and do not see the need for change. It is important that treatmen t should be congruent with clients' readiness for change. This article describes a substance abuse treatment matching model based on the Pro chaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change theory (Prochaska & DiClement e, 1982).