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MOTIVATING INTERVIEWING.<br />

EXCERPT OF A STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MOTIVATING<br />

INTERVIEWING.<br />

Research question<br />

Motivating interviewing has only been applied with persons who have an alcohol or drug problem.<br />

Probably it has already been applied to other target groups, but I couldn’t find any literature on it.<br />

Motivating interviewing describes an interview style, this would be applicable in the<br />

different settings. Inside the psychogeriatry you often see ‘revolving door patients’. The<br />

motivating interviewing should be an extra support to the other therapies in the<br />

healing. This process accelerates because the client is going to think more about what he wants to<br />

achieve. This will make him intrinsically motivated. This process will not only be acted by myself,<br />

but through the whole team. The continuity is hereby important.<br />

Target<br />

I focused on psycho geriatric clients who suffer from a reactive depression. This means along<br />

Cuyvers (2001) that a depression is caused by events from outside.<br />

As people age, physical and mental changes occur. They retire, they move home or<br />

they get institutionalised. This often happens without their approval. These are<br />

extremely confrontational experiences for the elderly. It gives a reaction with this<br />

person. Everyone reacts in his own way. Godderis, Van de Ven en Wills (1992)<br />

notice several forms of coping.<br />

Regression is a fall back on the primitive dependency feelings. The elderly will demand attention<br />

and grumble.<br />

Depressive position characterizes introversion, brooding, self pity,...<br />

Denying of the physical and/ or psychic decline.<br />

Acceptation advances when there is an accordance between the ideal about oneself and the reality<br />

of getting older.<br />

Motivation<br />

There are three forms of motivation according to Dhert (2002) and Van Laere (2008).<br />

1. The first one is intrinsic motivation, the goal of the activity lies in the activity itself.<br />

2. Next we have the extrinsic motivation, the person expects that the activity leads to positive<br />

consequences.<br />

3. The last form is the internalized motivation, it advances when a person wants to meet the rules<br />

and expectations of the environment. This is often present with the clients.<br />

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