Dr. Haque is a PGY-5 fellow, and Dr. D’Souza is a PGY-4 fellow, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hosftra/Northwell Health, Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks, New York.
Disclosures The authors report no financial relationships with any companies whose products are mentioned in this article, or with manufacturers of competing products.
You use the last 15 minutes of Mr. C’s visit to conduct MI and acknowledge his ambivalence to change. Mr. C reveals that his motivation for change centers on how he perceives himself as a disappointment to his daughter because of his continuous drug use. At the end of the encounter, Mr. C is in tears but has a renewed motivation to stop using heroin. He agrees to enter substance abuse treatment.
