Motivational interviewing

Cancer Pain Management Pain is one of the most common symptoms in cancer patients and often has a negative impact on their ability to perform the tasks of daily living and their overall quality of life. All people have experienced pain at some point in their lives, especially while in the hospital. During some point in a nurse’s career, the nurse will be responsible for managing a patient with pain. Even if a nurse chooses to not work in an oncology unit, almost every nurse will, at…

There were several interventions used on Mario such as Motivational Interviewing, Problem Solving Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. These interventions were chosen because Mario was ambivalent about some areas he wanted to improve in his life. He was also having a hard time coping with current and past issues and struggling with his way of thinking or his views on society. Motivational Interviewing is a technique that was developed to help individuals work through their ambivalence…

many individuals from seeking treatment. Csiernik asserts that harm-reduction interventions are facilitative rather than coercive and are grounded in the needs of individuals (2011). In determining where individuals are at in treatment, a motivational interviewing approach is a useful technique and tool in assessing the individuals stage of readiness in therapy. Prochaska and DiClemente (1997) identified six specific steps for radical change to occur: 1. Pre-contemplation – no intention…

My wife and I are both experiencing problems that are related to our childhood family dynamics. If we can change our problem behavior using motivational interviewing it will give us an opportunity to focus on our individual issues that we face and thoroughly analyze our emotions as well as an opportunity to recognize the extent of our anxieties, and find any repetitive behaviors. Along with feeling relatable to each other which strengthens our lifelong commitment to our marriage. In addition, it…

client more, there desires and needs, and increase their autonomy by using this skill. Health coaching helps explore clients’ ambivalence (Butterworth et. al, 2006) uses motivational interviewing as a client-centered counseling style to explore and resolve any mixed feelings with the prospect of change. I applied motivational interviewing by using the skills I have gained from this course in focusing on the four principles: expressing empathy, develop discrepancy, rolling with resistance, and…

NURSING ROLES FOR CARE AND PROMOTING HEALTH 2 One of our first assignments in the RN to BSN distance learning program at Western Carolina University involved introducing yourself to classmates and describing why you became a nurse. Over half of the responses stated to help or care for others. A major…

Motivational interviewing is “a style of patient-centered counseling developed to facilitate change in health-related behaviors”(Simpson, 2015, p. 1). It is important to consider access to health care, knowledge of the cultures and subcultures and effective communication skills, when managing hypertension in African-Americans. Motivational interviewing promotes positive healthy behavioral outcomes by using educational teaching…

change more than once while building the skills needed to successfully make changes. If they fail to build the skills necessary for change, they may formulate a suicide plan (Hoy et al., 2016). There have been many different studies done on Motivational interviewing over the years. Presently, brief interventions are adapted to help a person pass through each stage of change and toward a desired behavior (Hoy et al., 2016). Scaling may be used to express the clients desire to change behavior.…

Analysis was a very interesting assignment. It allowed us, as novice practitioners to practice skills that were taught throughout the semester. The following are therapy models that were covered: Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused and Interpersonal Therapy Models. RP 1 Motivational Interviewing: Strengths A strength that I noticed throughout the video was my ability to actively listen to Wendy and reflect her feelings or what I believed she felt and then I asked her to ensure that I…

1. Where am I in relation to the learning goal(s) I established for myself for this course? The three main learning goals I established for this course was to gain self-awareness and examine ethical issues that arises in mental health practice, learn interventions and evidenced-based practices that I can incorporate when engaging my clients, and to heighten my knowledge of cultural disparities in mental health. Ultimately, I wanted to feel and identify professional and personal growth after…