Active Living

1a.) My initial measurable behavior change goal was “The one health behavior that I want to work on for the remainder of the semester is my physical activity, I have always wanted to be a runner and complete a marathon. I am a pretty active person in my everyday life and I do walk on my treadmill every morning, but I really want to get my heart rate up and burn some calories. I do notice that I am very tired in the mornings and I have read a number of research articles that show performing an activity like jogging or running first thing in the morning helps with energy and ramps up your metabolism. Since I am so tired in the morning I do drink coffee and drinking more coffee lead to more sugar in my diet, which is something that I am really…

activity through having experienced a sense of achievement and enjoyment; 2. The motivation and confidence to continue active participation on physical activity; 3. Movement competence, commensurate with their physical potential; 4. Experience of a range of movement activities; 5. Realistic self-knowledge and self-awareness enabling them to set appropriate personal goals in respect to physical activity; 6. An understanding of the nature of movement and of the importance and value of physical…

Culminating Activity - Active Living: Final Fitness Reflection While doing my fitness testing, my initial goals were to follow the rating chart found on page two of “My Personal Fitness Gram Profile” booklet, and seeing how many laps, full-body push-ups, curl-ups, back-saver sit & reach etc. I needed to do according to my age to achieve high performance. Throughout the course I have practiced and pushed myself to do better in order to achieve my goal. Looking at my final fitness test I have…

Active Living for the Older Person Introduction: The process of ageing can bring about a number of social changes… bereavement, depression, isolation, retirement etc. Retirement can be one that may have a very dramatic effect on the life of the individual. I shall use course notes/handouts, course recommended textbooks and internet sources to research and understand the topic. 1. The role of the carer/organisations in promoting positive attitudes to ageing and retirement Retirement may be…

My Healthy Active Living Action Plan- Pola Cwiek My Goals Are SMART GOAL #1: Component of Fitness: Muscular Strength- Standing Long Jump My Healthy Active Living Goal is to improve my standing long jump by 15 cm by January 2018. My goal is specific because I've stated the test i want to improve in: standing long jump, the amount i want to increase in 15 cm and the time frame January 2018. My goal is measurable because I’m going to be able to see the difference in centimetres since the first…

How many times have you been talking with someone and they act like they were not listening to you? I can say that this has happened to me quite a lot. The person I was talking to seem uninteresting in what I was saying or seemed like they were disengaged. Do you remember how it made you feel? I can say that it made me feel confused and even angry. That’s why active listening is very important to our clients as social workers. It’s important because it helps build a trusting relationship with…

delivered in two to four outpatient sessions. It’s effectiveness and has held up across a wide variety of real-life clinical settings. Motivational interviewing focuses on mobilizing the client's own resources for change. It does not assume a long-term client-therapist relationship. Motivational interviewing is also a sensible prelude to other health care interventions because it has been shown to increase adherence, which in turn improves treatment outcomes. In the book “Motivational…

Active Listening Scenario: My active listening conversation occurred during my first training workshop for the NOVA ambassador program at JSOM. It was a Friday afternoon, and among the attendees, there were 3 staff members and 14 NOVA ambassadors, including myself. We were at a small classroom that invited people to sit close to each other, allowing a closer group interaction. I took a seat right in the middle of the classroom, facing right at the presenter, a school faculty member, with a…

non-verbal messages”( Beebe, Beebe, Redmond, Geerinck and Salem-Wiseman, 2015, p.113 ). Being an active listener makes the speaker feel that the listener is interested in him/her and he/she feels…

I aimed to improve both recognising and using non-verbal signals, gestures, facial expressions and body language. I also tried to advance my active listening skills giving my full attention to my patient while being seen to be listening by maintaining eye contact and give confirmation to the patient by nodding, smiling or by using verbal ratification. I did this to keep the concentration of my patient and prevent them from reaching a conclusion that I wasn’t properly listening. I also found that…