Preparation
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Preparation: Planning for change
Key Tasks: Helping clients make a commitment and a good plan
Strategies
- Helping clients prepare well to make the change or do the behavior
- Help them develop an effective and acceptable plan
- Make it a collaborative plan not do it for them
- Support the plan with your help/resources
- Help them describe details about the plan
- Set a timeline or date to begin or make the change
- Address barriers and plan on how to overcome
- Help them watch out for events that can disrupt the change
