Journey to Recovery Series
Improving Effectiveness with Different Learning Styles in Group and Individual Work
Presented by: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes Executive Director, AllCEUs
Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox & Happiness isn’t Brain Surgery
Objectives
~ Learn why it is important to understand learning style
~ Identify the three components of learning
~ Explore the multiple facets of learning
~ Synthesize the components and facets of learning to understand how you most effectively learn
Why Do I Care?
~ You learn every day:
~ Reading/watching the news
~ Developing a new skill or hobby
~ Watching people and life
~ To change a behavior you need to:
~ Learn the function of the old behavior
~ Learn why the old behavior is not meeting your needs
~ Learn about alternate behaviors
~ Develop that knowledge into skills
Learning Theory
~ Client-Partnership Model
~ Client and coach identify learning goals and methods
~ New information is linked to prior learning
~ Client undergoes an unlearning process before new information is implemented
~ Information is given over time
~ Information is tailored to the needs of the individual
~ Learning is affective, cognitive, social and behavioral
Assumptions about Learners
~ Want to know why they should learn it (Motivation)
~ Intro story you can relate to…
~ Define how this will help you…
~ Are active, responsible, self-directed learners
~ Identify what you might be able to get out of this?
~ Identify how you can apply the material?
~ Bring experience to learning
~ Knowledge of primary and related topics (i.e. depression and treatment)
~ Biases primary and related topics (i.e. depression and treatment)
Assumptions cont…
~ Are ready to learn when the need arises
~ How can you make mandatory learning more relevant?
~ How can you increase rewards for learning?
~ Provide Task/Problem-Oriented Learning
~ Identify something you need to learn about in order to improve your recovery or happiness.
Context of Learning
~ Positive learning climate
~ How do you create that in your setting?
~ Does it differ for other people?
~ What are some examples of negative learning climates you have been in?
~ Personal characteristics
~ Self-efficacy
~ Expectations
~ Vulnerabilities/confounding issues (crisis, MH, detox)
Context cont…
~ Peers
~ Stage of readiness for change
~ Co-occurring issues
~ Culture
~ Community
~ Stigma/attitudes
~ Availability of peer support
~ Significant Other Expectations
~ Identified patient/why aren’t you fixed
~ It’s not me, it’s him
Motivating the Adult Learner
~ 6 factors that motivate adult learning:
~ Social relationships:
~ To make new friends and socialize
~ To improve current relationships with friends and family
~ External expectations:
~ Job/School
~ Other authority’s requirement (Doctor, probation officer)
~ Social welfare:
~ To improve ability to serve the community
~ To improve the community
Motivating the Adult Learner
~ 6 factors that motivate adult learning:
~ Personal Improvement:
~ Enhance health and wellbeing
~ Professional advancement
~ Stay abreast of competitors
~ Escape/Stimulation:
~ To relieve boredom
~ Change the routine
~ Cognitive interest: To learn for the sake of learning
Learning Components
~ Cognition
~ How people acquire knowledge
~ Seeing, hearing or doing
~ Conceptualization
~ How people process information
~ Abstract, specific, memory pathways
~ Affective
~ People’s motivation, decision-making styles, values and emot