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Task No. 3 - Enhance Patient Motivation: Using Direct Interventions
The purpose of this task is to enhance patient motivation. Watch the practitioner use six direct interventions. Click on each bolded title to watch these micro skills. After watching each intervention, use the 0 - 10 scale to assess the impact on the patient.

Watch each nondirect intervention and fill in a score for each one before
advancing to the next one. Compare your score to the average
of past responsers. Then guess whether you think that she changed her
resistance and motivation scores. Listen to what she says about
changing her scores and why.

Assess Impact of Direct Interventions Using the 0-10 Scale
Score
Average
Use benefit substitution: "I'm just wondering if there are some other ways that you could smooth your nerves?"
Bring the future to the present: "Imagine that you developed a health problem caused by smoking sometime in the future. Suppose that happened now; what would you do?"
Clarify values: "What is more important to you - smoking to relax or your son's health?"
Identify discrepancies: "But you are saying one thing and doing another."
Use differences in motivational reasons: "I am just wondering if you could take the energy that you use to protect your son's health and protect your own health as well?"
Reframe events or issues: "You say that smoking helps you relax but it's really just a sign of nicotine addiction."
Guess what her resistance score is now:
Guess what her motivation score is now:
Click here to see how previous vistors responded: