Topic: patient education
Trapped: Helping Clients Avoid Relapse
Would have been easy enough to avoid, had I seen it coming. Unfortunately the brain I was using to make decisions was the addicted one. It was not a friend to recovery.
Topics: addiction and the brain, craving, patient education, relapse, signs and symptoms, tobacco
Material Clients Can’t (or Won’t) Read Doesn’t Help Them
It’s not so much that the client is unable to grasp the info as he or she is easily discouraged based on a fund of previous negative experiences in school.
Topics: client engagement and motivation, cognitive behavioral therapy, patient education, therapeutic models, therapies and tools
Can We Make Patient Education Work?
Use examples. It’s hard for someone with alcoholism to grasp the idea that he or she can’t go back to drinking at some future point – after a year of abstinence, for instance. But the old saw that a pickle can’t go back to being a cucumber – that people seem to understand.
Topics: client engagement and motivation, patient education, self diagnosis
