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The stages of change model
- Action
Actively involved in taking steps to change their using behaviour and making great steps towards significant change. Ambivalence is still very likely at this stage. May try several different techniques and are also at greatest risk of relapse. - Maintenance
Able to success fQly avoid any temptations to return to using behaviour. Have learned to anticipate and handle temptations to use and arc able to employ new ways of coping. Can have a temporary slip, but don't tend to see this as failure.
Relapse
During this change process, most people will experience relapse. Relapses can be important for learning and helping the person to become stronger in their resolve to change. Alternatively relapses can be a trigger for giving up in the quest for change. The key to recovering from a relapse is to review the quit attempt up to that point, identify personal strengths and weaknesses, and develop a plan to resolve those weaknesses to solve similar problems the next time they occur.
Relapse is a factor in the action or maintenance stages. Many people who change their behaviour decide
ANT: How do you work with a client when there is a relapse.
Can be seen as a threat, and give up or see it as an pooprtunity to learn reflect and grow. Can go both ways.
Some days are better than others.
Have you experienced a bad day after trying to get well?
I have been doing all this for nothing!
Anyone want to share?
Clayton Mc: Relationship issues, go clean, then break up and rellapse.
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Ant: Imagine being on a function. Trying to change your diet. You are familar and comfortable with the food. Your brain tries to convince you to eat the pizza! At the start of change leads you to the old way.
Ant: I help client reire their brain. By changing their habit. There will be some resistart at start, Brain likes to be familaier with what you are used to. Need to rewrite brain.
ClaitMc
How to rewrite brain?
Ant: Brain is always recording and familiar with all things we do. Brain is like a machine that knows how we do things. The subconscious needs to be changed by repetion - this is part of rewiring. Constantly tell brain through repetition what good change you are trying to make. This becomes a a habit. Tell brain repeatedly how you are changing to good habits. The brain becomes familiar.
AndT: A client may say that they are not good enough. Then saying to brain that you are good enough once wont change the brain, but repeatedly and over time the repetition is what rewires the brain. Once is not good enough.
Ant: Imagne driving somewhere new. Imagine it is a job interview. When asking client of the experience leading up to trip. The client would give details of experience, since leading up to it. Then you get the job. The place becomes workplace. If you have driven for 6 months to this place wold the place have the same feeling as first time?
JAG: Explained how you go in auto pilot.
NAt: Repetition gets you there basically automaticly and different expertience than the first. Very comfortable and familiar after doing it over and over again.
Nat: Repeat life is awful, a nightmare, brain would believe it. To go from not good enough to good enough – use repetition to believe it!!! Not much work needs to be done other than the repetition. The brain will do the rest.
Nat: Imagine someoen wanting to get fit and healthy. Dont tell client to start running marathn. Get them to do small things first like walking around block. Better to repeat actions, with quantity than quality. Like 5 minutes a day at start. Then repeat.
Nat: To get to the habit of going to gym, just turn up and do 5 mins first. Make it easy to start making action.
JAG: Scary how bad small habits over time can become a problem.
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ClaytMc: Chemical reaaction, dopamine from doing things.
Nat: Sometimes we are driven by our bilogy, like hromones dopaine making us continue doing things.
Nat: Much better to start small and repeat... than go big first. Also better than cutting up things.
Nicole: Q. Once you start small steps, and not make progress. What then?
Nat: Dopamine, best friend. D. motivates us to keep going. Small rewards motivating us to keep going.
Nat: Trial and error. Dont push things too far. Rep up. Dopamine helps get endorphns from exercise. This motivates us to keep going.
AlexF: Do something constructive with reward doing thing successfully, with an indirect reward that helps.
Nat: Break blocks into small blocks to lose motivation. Break down to small gals. Let dopamine kick in in small goals being achieved. Make things easier. Alsways start small!!!
Nat: Bit of a night owl. TO start better routine, I start going to bed earlier in small steps.
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Coming to an end for today.
Repeating good habits.
Stop repeating bad habits.
Repetition is the key.
In summary,
Talkinf about change and stages of change.
For now read material. Learner gudie, powerpoint and other material.
Pre- Contemplation next week.
Practical intervention at each stage of their walk.
Set goals depending if client is ready to start making change.
Will learn to bring change quicker.
Questions?
Seems there to be a class rule not to ask question.
Any reflection.
JAG: How this can practically be used with helping children get into a better habit.
Nic: Diff stage levels. Eveyone is at different points.
Ant: start asking questions to client to help know where they are. Simple questions. Even obsious questions.
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Spend some time in resources, material powerpoints, get familiar with Teams folder - get confident to use material to learn than to look for it.