Adult Education, Goals, Contracts and Adherence Flashcards
What are the 6 adult learning principles?
1) They bring experience and knowledge
2) Relevancy orientated
3) Autonomous and self-directed
4) Practical
5) Task centered and problem oriented, life centered
6) Intrinsically motivated
Discuss experience and knowledge
- Share their knowledge and experiences
- Identify personal learning needs
- Learning is enhanced when clients feel that their ideas, feeling, experiences and perspectives are of value and significance
Discuss relevancy oriented
- Need to know what, why and how beforehand and be convinced that a need exists
- Learning is a need, not an end
- They like to be convinced that the learning experience will be worth their time and effort
Discuss autonomous and self-directed
- Need to feel free too direct themselves, take responsibility for their learning
- Expect to be treated as independant, responsible individuals
- Like to be solicited on their perspectives
- They are the decision makes in their lives, should have some say on the content of the session
Describe practical
-For them to be motivated to acquire new skills, they need to believe that the outcome will lead to the development of useful skills
Discuss task centered and problem oriented, life centered
- They like to learn about key ideas and how they apply to a problem relevant to them
- Provide self-evaluation tools to measure progress (food journals)
Discuss intrinsically motivated
-Motivated by internal pressures (improved quality of life, increased self-esteem, health, avoidance of disease)
What are the advantage of including a clients’ spouse?
- Both will hear the advice
- Can check with the spouse for comprehension
- If spouse goes grocery and cooking, allows for questions
- If client is not feeling well, spouse will hear advice
- Allows you to see interactions between the couple around food choices; allow for coaching
What are the disadvantages of including a spouses client?
- Spouse may take over
- Spouse may spend much of the time criticizing the client’s food choices –> Defensive client that shuts down
- Spouse may bring up his/her own food/die t concerns
- You might spend your time pulling the client back into the conversation
What are two examples of including a spouse in the conversation?
1) “Your wife has some important questions about cooking methods, would it be OK with you if I address those now?”
2) “You’ve heard me tell her about what to shop for. How does that sound to you?”
3) “You are clearly concerned about your health. Would you like to set up a time to come in to fully discuss your concern?”
What i the reason that most people do not reach their goals?
-Is that they don’t define them , or ever seriously consider them a believable or achievable
What are 4 key concepts of goal setting?
- Motivation alone is not sufficient to initiate health promoting personal change
- Not achieved through will-power
- Need to learn skills for self-influence
- The first thing is to observe the behaviour to change
What is goal setting?
It is a counselling process, that helps clients define in precise, measurable terms, what they hope to achieve from the work of counseling
Are goals ending points?
NO, goals are starting points, but they are useless until they are described as clear and concrete targets
What should goals involve?
- Involved exploring change options
- Involves exploring past experiences
- Involves building on past successes
- -> Should define and provide structure for subsequent work
In order to make successful behaviour change, what must clients know?
What their target it
–> Increase the motivation to act by building our perceptions of our self-efficacy
What are two things to keep in mind about goal setting?
- most people are not able to change behaviour in one day
- Don’t enter goal setting too quickly
What is the counselors role in goal setting?
- Partnership between counselor and client to develop an action plan
- Counselor is NOT one to set the goal
- Our role is to ensure that the goals meet the goal setting criteria
How should we engage with the client to set goals?
- Elicit clients ideas for change (change talk)
- Explore concerns regarding a selected option (probe)
- Identify a specific goal from a broadly stated goal (narrow the focuss to a specific goal)
How should goals be stated?
Positively
–> i.e. “I won’t eat ice cream while watching TV” vs “I will eat one cup of low-fat ice cream, 3 days/week while watching TV)