Designing an implementation plan based on concepts of instrumental conditioning to seek a patient’s cooperation with an exercise regimen. State your concerns over the use of the plan.
Introduction
Understanding the causes and effects of obesity to the patient, then, designing an implementation plan to enhance patient’s health status, we would apply instrumental conditioning for seeking patient’s cooperation.
Case Study:
A person, male, age 45, height 1.67 m, working at a financial institution, was admitted to the hospital due to his chest pain at home. After assessing his fitness conditions, his BMI and his Blood glucose level which are 30.2 and 157 mg/dL, he is diagnosed as obesity case.
When we spoke with him, he told us that he felt …show more content…
“Positive reinforcement involves the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following a behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will occur again in the future. When a favorable outcome, event, or reward occurs after an action, that particular response or behavior will be strengthened” stated by Psychological expert, Ms. Kendra Cherry.
In this case, the patient is allowed to choose the activities that he enjoys. We will give him rewards to reinforce his behavior. Praising the patient and teaching him to relax are types of internal rewards which is intangible reinforcement.
Sometime, we can set a plan to extend his social networking. We can invite other patients together to form a sporting group. They, having similar condition, symptoms, can do the exercise together regularly.
Basketball, badmintons, walking, slow-running are the good options to them. They could follow the designed plan to keep exercise for 30 minutes every day. Sporting group acts as a role of supporting group for all participants. We could encourage, also appreciate the patient who have finished a particular exercise plan within schedule time. It would develop the cooperation and trust between the patients and …show more content…
In reality, we know that lazy, busy, powerless, lack of encouragement and strength, timeless, all are the reasons that the patient could explain why he could not fulfill the requirement of exercise regimen. Thus we can design activities to bar his reasons not to do exercise.
According the negative reinforcement’s suggestion, we can design regular meeting with the patient and his family members. Purposefully, asking the patient’s family members and friends to have a closely contact to the patient in order to reduce his feeling of discrimination.
After implementation of exercise regimen, he reduces his body weight, his stress and his any chronic illnesses. Then he willingly continues to do exercise until he has good result from his struggle. He initially establishes his self-esteem because of his sense of accomplishment and the accompaniment from friends. When the patient’s weight is decreased, we can celebrate with him or encourage him further
Introduction
Understanding the causes and effects of obesity to the patient, then, designing an implementation plan to enhance patient’s health status, we would apply instrumental conditioning for seeking patient’s cooperation.
Case Study:
A person, male, age 45, height 1.67 m, working at a financial institution, was admitted to the hospital due to his chest pain at home. After assessing his fitness conditions, his BMI and his Blood glucose level which are 30.2 and 157 mg/dL, he is diagnosed as obesity case.
When we spoke with him, he told us that he felt …show more content…
“Positive reinforcement involves the addition of a reinforcing stimulus following a behavior that makes it more likely that the behavior will occur again in the future. When a favorable outcome, event, or reward occurs after an action, that particular response or behavior will be strengthened” stated by Psychological expert, Ms. Kendra Cherry.
In this case, the patient is allowed to choose the activities that he enjoys. We will give him rewards to reinforce his behavior. Praising the patient and teaching him to relax are types of internal rewards which is intangible reinforcement.
Sometime, we can set a plan to extend his social networking. We can invite other patients together to form a sporting group. They, having similar condition, symptoms, can do the exercise together regularly.
Basketball, badmintons, walking, slow-running are the good options to them. They could follow the designed plan to keep exercise for 30 minutes every day. Sporting group acts as a role of supporting group for all participants. We could encourage, also appreciate the patient who have finished a particular exercise plan within schedule time. It would develop the cooperation and trust between the patients and …show more content…
In reality, we know that lazy, busy, powerless, lack of encouragement and strength, timeless, all are the reasons that the patient could explain why he could not fulfill the requirement of exercise regimen. Thus we can design activities to bar his reasons not to do exercise.
According the negative reinforcement’s suggestion, we can design regular meeting with the patient and his family members. Purposefully, asking the patient’s family members and friends to have a closely contact to the patient in order to reduce his feeling of discrimination.
After implementation of exercise regimen, he reduces his body weight, his stress and his any chronic illnesses. Then he willingly continues to do exercise until he has good result from his struggle. He initially establishes his self-esteem because of his sense of accomplishment and the accompaniment from friends. When the patient’s weight is decreased, we can celebrate with him or encourage him further