There is an Intervention timeline, but AMBIT does not specify how long a specific team should work on a specific case - these are elements of Local practice and expertise that should be defined by a local team (consider Editing your local version of the Intervention timeline to reflect this.)

Even though you may have spent quite a lot of time with a client, if their motivational status is low then from a psychological perspective you may be closer to the INITIAL PHASE than you had hoped.

Non-progression into the INTERVENTION PHASE will need to be tackled explicitly with the young person, perhaps with a focus on the (re)-drawing of Goals-based outcome measures (see Advice on setting Treatment Aims and Goals).