How To Enhance Your Life - Dean Amory
Techniques for enhancing the quality of your life
Techniques for enhancing the quality of your life
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Motivation also has three components. The first on is readiness, the person knows what he wants<br />
and is able to make priorities. The second component is willingness, this is the degree to which<br />
someone wants change. The last one is ability, otherwise said the degree of faith that the client has<br />
in the change. (Miller & Rollnick, 2005)<br />
Motivating interviewing<br />
Motivating interviewing is an interview style. It is a client centred and directive method.<br />
It ‘s goal is to increase intrinsic motivation so that change occurs by exploring<br />
ambivalence and by solving this. (Miller & Rollnick, 2005)<br />
The general principles that are concerned are: the construction of a relationship of<br />
trust, the developing of discrepancy , the movement with the resistance and the<br />
support of the personal effectiveness. (Schippers, 2000)<br />
Inside the motivating interviewing are two marked phases. The first phase is the<br />
building of motivation to change. We do this by: asking open questions, listening<br />
reflectively, affirming the client, synthesizing and provoking language of change.<br />
The provoking of language of change can be among asking the miracle question (how would it be,<br />
if all your problems were gone?) or by looking back at the past, before the problem began.<br />
We also need to work on trust by looking back at earlier successes, underlining the<br />
strong sides and appliances, giving information and advice.<br />
When the client starts to get more notion of himself and his priorities (wishes), he can go to the<br />
next phase, which is amplify the involvement with change.<br />
The situation will be synthesized again so we can decide what has to be done, this is<br />
called recapitulation. We also have to ask open questions so the wishes and plans of<br />
the client will be provoked. The last thing we do, is give information and advice (when the client<br />
asks and gives permission). (Miller & Rollnick, 2005)<br />
Motivating interviewing is a paradoxical concept because the professional helper asks the client to<br />
go with him for a conversation. This is often an obligation. In this way it isn’t easy to get the client<br />
intrinsically motivated. That is why it is important to involve the whole team in the motivating<br />
interviewing. This will give the client the experience that everyone has the same attitude and he<br />
will develop faster.<br />
Change and resistance<br />
The model of Prochaska & Diclemente shows how a person will develop during his<br />
process of change. It has several phases. In the pre-contemplation phase the client has no intention<br />
to change something about his behaviour. He will display a lot of denial and resistance.<br />
When he passes over to the consideration phase, he starts to doubt his problem, but he places it<br />
outside himself.<br />
Thereafter he advances to the decision phase. He proceeds to change his behaviour,<br />
but he is looking for a strategy for change.<br />
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