Motivation Interviewing Evidence Based Model

The FACT team strives on making sure the client has a support system. This system can also include other agencies and organizations around the community. In doing this, the team is advocating other resources and avenues in their support system. This will help the client stay on a path of a successful recovery. For instance, some clients do not have family members or friends. If the client is homeless, just got released from jail with no place to go, the FACT team would put together a treatment plan that might benefit him by finding him a group housing with other individuals similar to his situation.
The evidence-based model that is used in with FACT clients is the Motivation Interviewing (MI). This practice became a widespread approach to

facilitate behavior change in a variety of mental health and health care setting. This practice was developed in 1980, for use with patients who suffered from addition (Schumacher, Madson, and Nilsen). Today, MI has been applied to a broad range of health issues, including alcohol, nicotine, physical behavior and others. It also has been used by professional counselors, psychologist, nurses, and social workers. Schumacher and his colleagues state that the MI recasts client from a passive, dependent role to a role in which they actively manage their change efforts. It helps recognize that the client is the problem solver, with change being internally motivated. According to Schumacher at el., the MI has shown to produce significant changes in client health related behaviors in general and in substance use in particular. It is a strengths-based approach to prevention and intervention. Also, in the past 20 years the demand for professional training in MI has increased rapidly (Scumacker, at el).
Finally, NHS does not terminate a client. The client can stay with the agency until he or she decides that they no longer needs treatment or if they at a level of highly functioning that the services of the agency is not needed.