{"id":6666,"date":"2020-11-17T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:35:44","slug":"readiness-to-change-drugs-socrates-8d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/readiness-to-change-drugs-socrates-8d\/","title":{"rendered":"Readiness to Change – Drugs | Socrates-8D"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale for Drugs (Socrates-8D)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 8 weeks
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Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The SOCRATES provides information on client strengths and needs in the areas of treatment readiness. The name implies the area being measured: Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale. This tool is designed to give a general measure of the motivation of problem drinkers and drug users to enter treatment.<\/p>\n

The addiction treatment field continues to attempt to measure the \u201cstage of change\u201d in which the client presents. Prochaska, Norcross and DiClemente outlined six stages in their Stages of Change model (1994), which is applicable to many behaviours. The stages are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Precontemplation<\/li>\n
  2. Contemplation<\/li>\n
  3. Preparation<\/li>\n
  4. Action<\/li>\n
  5. Maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The SOCRATES tool does not determine the client\u2019s specific \u201cstage of change\u201d but provides scores on three scales\u2014\u00a0Recognition<\/em>,\u00a0Ambivalence\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Taking steps<\/em>\u2014which measure the client\u2019s general level of motivation:<\/p>\n

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    1. Recognition:\u00a0<\/em>This scale provides information about the client\u2019s level of awareness or consciousness of and acknowledgement of the link between substance use and current problems.<\/li>\n
    2. Ambivalence:\u00a0<\/em>This scale provides information about whether the client is certain or uncertain that he or she has or doesn\u2019t have a problem. These scores are neither good nor bad; they simply indicate the amount of energy the client is spending in thinking about the change process or in debating the pros and cons of change.<\/li>\n
    3. Taking steps:\u00a0<\/em>This scale considers evidence that a client is starting to take steps, or has already taken some steps, to change behaviour.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The therapist should use the SOCRATES as a starting point in the overall discussion with the client about his or her motivation for change. It is a useful exercise in early discussions about next steps and the client\u2019s options for treatment. It also affects clinical decisions about appropriate referrals.<\/p>\n

      When the client becomes involved in clinical treatment, subsequent administrations of the SOCRATES can show the impact of clinical interventions, through changes on the three scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale for Drugs (Socrates-8D) Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 8 weeks Summary The SOCRATES provides information on client strengths and needs in the areas of treatment readiness. The name implies the area being measured: Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale. This tool is designed to give a general measure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}