Motivational interviewing

including motivation, efficiency, mental capacity, motivation,and health & safety. Nola answered all of these questions to the best of her knowledge pulling from her experiences and offered us some insightful opinions on the subject matter. When interviewing Nola Joorisity, we first started off asking her questions pertaining to job design. The first question we asked her was: how has the awareness of mental illness affected the mental capacity aspect of job design? Nola’s response was that…

Day by day heroin becomes more and more prominent in every community big or small. In 2012, 669,000 Americans claimed to use heroin(Heroin). Heroin is made from morphine and is one of the top active opium drugs. Therefore, the first step to an effective treatment plan is understanding that every person is unique and a variety of treatment plans ensure that a person will find the best fit for their situation. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, in order for a treatment plan to be…

What I learned in this course In this course, I completed reading the text Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy written by Gerald Corey, which helped me have a better understanding of different types of theories and how they can benefit or help potential clients I may have. From all the theories studied in this course, there are some theories that I would like to apply that would be beneficial in helping me guide my clients to the right path. Person-centered therapy: In…

employees to other companies that offer better incentives and higher wages can become costly to any business. Advertising and interviewing for a new employee is not only costly, but also time consuming. Needless to mention the time and attention it takes to train a new team member. This is why motivation must be implemented by leaders in any company. “Herzberg’s motivational factors include achievement, recognition, personal growth and personal investment.” (Akers). When a company invests in…

The effective motivational interviewing techniques that were used in the individual counseling session with Hampton included: open-ended question, simple reflection, summarizing, and complex reflection. By utilizing open-ended questions this writer is able to obtain more information from Hampton about his issue. The issue that Hampton wanted to discuss involved his ambivalence with his Baptist Church. This writer began the individual counseling with Hampton by inviting him to share about his…

Exercise 3.6 An intentional Conversation What was it like to listen intentionally instead of using other skills (e.g. questions)? The conversation I am choosing to analyses occurred yesterday, between my sister in law and myself. It was not pre-arranged, however, I think it will work well for this analysis. Initially, I just listened, and as things progresses I asked simple follow up questions. I was very intentional to not give advice, initially. How did your conversation partner react? My…

Strengths The author’s integration of his philosophic beliefs with humanistic and cognitive based theories may not be a totally new concept because of therapeutic commonalities that exist in all modalities. But, these perceptions may provide insight into the mechanisms of change no matter the diversity of the client base. Because this theory is forged by the subjective perspective of the client, it can be of benefit to any cultural background because it remains the duty of the counselor to…

I have been in the public health field of nursing for the last 6 years. I transitioned from being a nurse home visitor using the Nurse Family Partnership program to becoming the NFP supervisor. This position has opened up many opportunities for me in my current job. I have always had a personal goal to return to school to acquire my baccalaureate in nursing. As I advance my nursing career, I will have the opportunity to grow into a more rounded nurse. I am certain that the BSN curriculum…

Technology-enabled innovation comes in many aspects. These aspects may include using cutting-edge analytics to improve the decision-making process, engaging digital technologies to reformat manufacturing, and connecting mobile capabilities to improve marketing and sales, to name just a few. The root in all these cases is the establishment of a platform that can be properly leveraged repeatedly to deliver the best possible outcome. Health care has been slow to innovate, especially in financial…

Diagnostically, the vignette illustrated some important clue to lead us to diagnose James with depression, GAD and possibly Alcohol use disorder. For depression, there were two major symptoms reported by Joe which are sleep problems where he reported difficulty falling asleep, and psychomotor retardation where he reported having problem is getting out of bed in the morning. Also, his worries about losing his job and his mind won’t shut up, his anxiety, most probably GAD. His confession about…