Change Therapy- Importance and Confidence.

Change Therapy – How to Increase Importance to Change and Confidence in Changing 

The pioneering work originally undertaken by Dr Bill Miller and Dr Steve Rollnick sparked a generation of interest in the understanding of exactly how and why we change. It spawned a number of approaches, most notably Motivational Enhancement Therapy, Change Therapyand Motivational Interviewing. Pivotal to these is the idea that change, especially motivation to change, is connected to how important change is, coupled with how confident we are in changing. This idea harks back to Ronald Rogers Health Beliefs theories about why we make health behaviour change.

Contrary to popular belief our confidence and importance are far more malleable than most believe. We can push up our confidence and our importance score fairly easily. There is no definitive list of techniques, what works for one may not work for another. Motivational Interviewing outline a handful of useful techniques but recognize there are as many strategies as problems themselves. During Change Therapy people are often encouraged to develop their own strategies that work for them.

Here are some ideas that might help:

Change Therapy : Increasing Importance to Change.

Think about your goals in life. What do you want to achieve and how would you like to be remembered. Imagine you are reflecting back over your life with a friend. What goals would you like to have achieved.

What would be the worst things that would happen if you did not change. What would be the absolute worst, nightmare scenarios. What are the things that would definitely happen that would not be good and the things that might happen that would be a disaster.

What would be the best things about changing? What would you expect to be better or different. How might other people be affected if you changed. Who would notice and what might they say about you.

What are your values in life? What do you hold most dear and how would your proposed changes affect these things. Think about your values carefully as they are not always immediately obvious.

Change Therapy – Increasing Confidence in Changing. 

List and describe your strengths as a person. What are you good at, what did you find interesting at school, were you good at sports, art, engineering, needlework….Would you say you are a stubborn person, do you give up on things, are you flexible. Do you have an ability to laugh at yourself…. The more you think the more you’ll come up with.

What achievements can you list. There are probably more than you think, when did you pass your driving test, do you have school awards, did you play local sports, have you ever got through an interview….. Just when you think you might have run out of things, give yourself five minutes, do the washing up (or something else) and you’ll probably think of one more.

If you didn’t pick a score of zero, why did you choose the number you did? Foe example, what made you say “3″ rather

than “0″.

If you did decide to change what support would you have from people around you. Who would want to see you do well, and what might they do to encourage you?

Change Therapy – Conclusion.

These are really just a few ideas that maybe helpful to you if engaged in Change Therapy. If you need more ideas do feel free to contact us, we will help you.

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Remember, keep on going. Not getting it right first time will make you more successful the next.