Effective Motivational Strategies.
There are eight general motivational strategies.
Giving advice. Well-timed and tempered advice to change can make a difference. Advice
should (1) clearly identify the problem or risk area, (2) explain why change is important,
and (3) advocate specific change. Removing barriers. Address blocks to change, such as
resistance to go to AA meetings. Providing choice. Few people like to be told what to do.
Intrinsic motivation is enhanced by the perception that one has freely chosen. Decreasing
desirability. Weigh the benefits and costs of change against the merits of continuing as
before. Practicing empathy. This kind of empathy is not an ability to identify with a
person’s experiences. Rather, it is a specifiable and learnable skill for understanding
another’s meaning through the use of reflective listening, whether or not you have had a
similar experience yourself. Providing feedback. Clarifying goals. Help the client to
restate the goal in realistic or attainable terms. Helping active. Express actively and
affirmatively your interest in your client’s change process. Motivational interviewing is a
nondirective approach. Miller and Rollnick (1991) use the mnemonic OARS to describe
nondirective counseling. You can “row along with your clients” if you O—ask openended questions, A—provide affirmations, R—reflect on client verbalizations, and S—
summarize what the client says. (See Table?8.1.)
There are eight general motivational strategies.
Giving advice. Well-timed and tempered advice to change can make a difference. Advice
should (1) clearly identify the problem or risk area, (2) explain why change is important,
and (3) advocate specific change. Removing barriers. Address blocks to change, such as
resistance to go to AA meetings. Providing choice. Few people like to be told what to do.
Intrinsic motivation is enhanced by the perception that one has freely chosen. Decreasing
desirability. Weigh the benefits and costs of change against the merits of continuing as
before. Practicing empathy. This kind of empathy is not an ability to identify with a
person’s experiences. Rather, it is a specifiable and learnable skill for understanding
another’s meaning through the use of reflective listening, whether or not you have had a
similar experience yourself. Providing feedback. Clarifying goals. Help the client to
restate the goal in realistic or attainable terms. Helping active. Express actively and
affirmatively your interest in your client’s change process. Motivational interviewing is a
nondirective approach. Miller and Rollnick (1991) use the mnemonic OARS to describe
nondirective counseling. You can “row along with your clients” if you O—ask openended questions, A—provide affirmations, R—reflect on client verbalizations, and S—
summarize what the client says. (See Table?8.1.)
The Research Paper The paper will be 3 to 5 pages in length and must cover the information below: Identify and analyze the: social, cognitive, and emotional factors of one of the addictions treatment
models discussed in the text. See chapter 8 in the text for a list of treatment models. You can use treatment models that are not in the text, Example-Reality therapy, Gestalt Therapy
Critically evaluate societal opinion and projected patient outcome regarding your specific treatment
model- here is where you make your point about how the model is projected into society from a
treatment perspective. What is your population? What addictive behavior are you trying to treat?
What does research say about your use of the model? Is there a need in the local environment?
models discussed in the text. See chapter 8 in the text for a list of treatment models. You can use treatment models that are not in the text, Example-Reality therapy, Gestalt Therapy
Critically evaluate societal opinion and projected patient outcome regarding your specific treatment
model- here is where you make your point about how the model is projected into society from a
treatment perspective. What is your population? What addictive behavior are you trying to treat?
What does research say about your use of the model? Is there a need in the local environment?
USE THE TEXT TO GUIDE YOU! Read your book, you paid for it.
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