Essays on Motivational Interviewing

Assignment 2

In the past decade, there has been an increase in distress, emotional turmoil, and marital issues among couples across the globe. Most couples require family planning, care, and management services to cope with stress and disputes. There has been significant amount of research on interventions to manage disputes and marital distress among couples. However, majority of the couples remain untreated and continue to suffer from marital distress. The motivational health model was perceived to be an exceptional and effective strategy in assessing married couples and their well-being. In this paper, a team of researchers statistically assessed the impact of ...

Introduction

Gambling addiction is a problem characterized by persistent and repeated gambling behavior leading to distress. The paper will be a descriptive essay concerning gambling addiction in the United States and Canada, its effects, and treatment. The things that will be found interesting are the number of people of gambling disorder, the reason for the problem, and its effects. The reason why the topic is important is because of the high number of people gamble without knowing how gambling disorder is developed and the effects of gambling. Two sources will be used in writing the essay: a journal article by ...

Analysis of Article

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Analysis of Article In an article researchers worked on a counselling method, i.e. Motivational Interviewing by school nurses, in the prevention of childhood obesity (Bonde, Bentsen, & Hindhede, 2014).

Who is the study sample?

In the study (Bonde et al., 2014), researchers took interviews of 12 school nurses, so the study sample is nurse representing a population of nurses assigned for motivational interviewing of students to prevent childhood obesity.

Is the study sample generalizable?

The study sample could not generalized as the nurses of the study had long working experiences. Whereas, sometimes less experienced nurses may also work in schools, who would show different perceptions about motivational ...

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Excessive computer use is increasingly becoming a worldwide social problem. The excessive use, otherwise known as Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) has resulted in a situation where individuals lack adequate socialization skills. Surveys in developed countries such as the US and Europe indicate an alarming prevalence rate among children. There have been numerous proposed solutions aimed at addressing the issue. The aim of this section is to offer a brief overview of these methods and offer reasons for their ineffectiveness. The main reason for the overall ineffectiveness is that children consider the computer and internet as cool technologies. Thus, one ...

For decades, correction personnel’s have been using the motivational interviewing (MI) to encourage and motivate people to stick to their goals to bring change within themselves. Miller (1991) was the first person to develop this strategy, which used different techniques such as avoiding arguments, improving ambivalence to fortify commitment, expression of empathy to motivate substance abusers to change themselves. A number of research papers have indicated that the efficacy of motivational interviewing (MI) is commendable, however, the evidence related to the effectiveness with the offenders needs to be further studied and collated. The main idea of the authors ...

Washington State University

The need for gambling disorder treatment increases due to the growth of the gaming operations in the United States of America and globally, there is a rise in recognition of clinical investigators together with the creation of awareness among the public to be able to assess gambling symptoms and its harmful consequences on the lives and overall function of gamblers. In this effort to recognize and ameliorate the symptoms of gambling, instruments were created to identify the severity of the gambling symptoms and also any changes that are reflected due to changes from treatment. In empirical research, a variety ...

The Street Kid

Shanda is an African American girl who is part of a street gang and who at one stage had several tumours removed from her arm. Obviously her health problems made it difficult for her to assimilate herself into society which was already fraught with considerable problems mainly due to the rough life which African Americans youths lead in this area. The judge who heard her case for assault recommended that she seek medical treatment for her substantial health problems, a lenient attitude to take which was rather commendable in the circumstances. Nothwitstanding all this, Shanda continued experiencing problems also largely ...

Motivational interviewing

Introduction An interview is always a crucial part of the relationship between two persons and when a person has a problem, it is important that the interview creates motivation for the subject. A typical example would be someone suffering from drug abuse but wanting to make amends for his/her actions. Questions should be as direct and first of all the interviewee should be put at ease immediately. A typical example would be to ask for the background of the person in question to create a rapport between interviewee and the person being interviewed. Motivation is very important from the start as ...