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Motivational Therapy for Psychotic Mental Disorder | Assignment

   

Added on  2019-11-25

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Running head: MOTIVATIONAL THERAPY FOR PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS MOTIVATIONAL THERAPY FOR PSYCHOTIC PATIENTSName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1MOTIVATIONAL THERAPY FOR PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS Psychotic mental disorder are complex disease, which causes abnormal perceptions andthinking. The main symptoms are misunderstandings related to false beliefs or misperceptionsregarding some people. Other one is hallucinations such s seeing, hearing, or feeling that is notthere. One of the psychotic disorder is Schizophrenia. This disorder requires cooperativemethodology to detect, diagnose, treat and recover the patient. Schizophrenic spectrum disorderssuch as schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform and schizophrenia constitutes 60 to 70percent psychotic population under treatment of mental health services. The use of oral drugsduring acute or chronic stages of illness to reduce symptoms of psychotic functioning isaccepted. However, clinical trial of such drug showed poor results (Chien et al., 2015). Non-adherence to medication decreases the effects drugs used in clinical trials and use ofresources. Therefore, use of Motivational therapy (MT) or motivational interviewing helps themental health carers while treating treatment resistant schizophrenia. The adaptation andassessment of motivational therapy need to be used among patient with such spectrum of disease.This process is a direct and person-to-person approach to activate motivation and toexplore contradictions to understand the patient’s mental health. Key component of MTconversation is to let the patient understand his problems and to let him find solutions himself.The healthcare expert uses their knowledge and skills to direct the process in right directiontaking into account the goals of patient and maintaining his autonomy (Christie & Channon,2014)According to the experimental study by Fiszdon et al. (2015), motivational interviewingcan be used to make the patient adapt to the medication to increase the adherence and task-specific motivation. The experiential relationship between these MI and session attendance

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