The Veteran Supported Education Service Treatment Manual: VetSEd

Worksheet # 9a/b: Ups and Downs for Going to School & for Going to School AND
Working
Adapted from Miller and Rollnick (2002), this Worksheet assists providers in structuring
a costs/benefits discussion with Veterans identified as pre-contemplating or
contemplating education. Peer VetSEd providers ask what are the ups and downs to going
to school, as well as what are the ups and downs of both going to school and working at
the same time. Then, they list the actual responses in the proper column. If Veterans find
it hard to identify items, then providers may frame the question in terms of daily, shortterm,
and long-term costs and benefits. After completing the tool, they ask Veterans to
pick which side seems to have greater significance.
Worksheet # 19: Ready, Able, Willing, and Resource Ruler
Adapted from Miller and Rollnick (2002), this Worksheet allows providers to ask
Veterans to pick a number between 1 and 10, with 1 being not prepared at all and 10
being extremely prepared. Providers complete four ruler ratings on Veterans‘ readiness
(time), ability (skills), willingness (priority), and resources (supports) to go to school. For
each area, providers ask the following questions and list responses. a) What are the
reasons for picking this number? b) What can you do to move up to the next number? c)
Why are you not one less than the number you picked? These questions help ready
Veterans to make a change while supporting Veteran self-efficacy.
Worksheet #20: Education Questionnaire
This questionnaire provides an opportunity to explore perspectives on costs and benefits
and values related to education. Providers initially ask the closed ended questions; in
turn, they go back to the first question and ask the following question for each item. ―Tell
me about your response to question ____.‖ This tool allows providers and Veterans to
explore education issues and values that may not have been uncovered during previous
costs/benefits and ruler discussions about education. To develop a plan for education
behavior adjustment, providers may utilize Worksheet #21: Education Change Plan
(Miller & Rollnick, 2002). With seven items, this intervention develops a plan to adjust
behaviors needed to obtain education.
These worksheets provide guidance for education providers assisting Veterans pursuing
educational goals. The following section describes a case example using the worksheets
described above. This case example demonstrates a Veteran initially contemplating
school and moving towards being in the action stage of going to school. We utilize the
Veteran for the entire case study and for each session and we provide a Veteran
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