As an intake worker for the Criminal Diversion Program (CDP), which the program is offered to the first-time offenders for charges of underage consumption and misdemeanor drug possession. A client by the name of Justin was referred to our program for underage consumption and misdemeanor drug possession and immediately the University of Rhode Island Individual Change Assessment (URICA) was presented to him to complete in order to find his readiness to change or not. An URICA is a self-assessment tool aimed to measure the level of an individual’s motivation to transform their behavior as they progress through a process known as the stages of change such as the pre-contemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance phases (Neal, 2011). Below
