Having the opportunity to be an intern at Preferred Family Healthcare has afforded me the opportunity to experience many things. The one that has struck me the most recently is the fact that I went into this knowing that I would be working with 6 people on the RCF using Motivational Interviewing. In the beginning I chose the six people with the assistance of staff and was very excited to begin working with them.
The part that I didn't realize was the fact that I didn't take into account if they were as excited to work with me. Since I have started I have had clients who verbalized that the would like to help me with my practicum and meet with me regularly. The reality hit when some of them had reason why they could not meet. I had one client who would constantly either tell me no he wasn't in the mood or would be lying in bed and would tell me that he was sleeping. I have had a client who identified that she would like to lose weight, but then would deny that she had any issues. She was unwilling to work on her identified goals and it took me a moment to grasp that she was vacillating between pre-contemplation and contemplation stages of change. …show more content…
Most recently I encountered one of my clients who has been with me from the beginning and has been working toward quitting smoking determine that he does not want to quit smoking. He had also previously identified that he wanted to budget his money to save it for when he moves out. He determined that he spends most of his money on cigarettes and snacks and if he continues to smoke he will have little money to budget with. He started off strong in the contemplation stage of change. He created an action plan, however I questioned (based on staff reporting) if he implemented the action steps. It took him nearly two months to verbalize that he no longer desired to quit smoking. Thus I saw him move back into the pre contemplation stage of
The part that I didn't realize was the fact that I didn't take into account if they were as excited to work with me. Since I have started I have had clients who verbalized that the would like to help me with my practicum and meet with me regularly. The reality hit when some of them had reason why they could not meet. I had one client who would constantly either tell me no he wasn't in the mood or would be lying in bed and would tell me that he was sleeping. I have had a client who identified that she would like to lose weight, but then would deny that she had any issues. She was unwilling to work on her identified goals and it took me a moment to grasp that she was vacillating between pre-contemplation and contemplation stages of change. …show more content…
Most recently I encountered one of my clients who has been with me from the beginning and has been working toward quitting smoking determine that he does not want to quit smoking. He had also previously identified that he wanted to budget his money to save it for when he moves out. He determined that he spends most of his money on cigarettes and snacks and if he continues to smoke he will have little money to budget with. He started off strong in the contemplation stage of change. He created an action plan, however I questioned (based on staff reporting) if he implemented the action steps. It took him nearly two months to verbalize that he no longer desired to quit smoking. Thus I saw him move back into the pre contemplation stage of