Changing behavior through counseling

Changing behavior by using

Counselling interventions

An intervention is a planned attempt by one, or often many, people (usually family and friends) to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem

Intervention is the act of using a technique within a therapy session.

Interventions is used to address serious personal problems, including alcoholism, gambling, drug abuse, eating disorders, tobacco smoking, "work holism", and various types of poor personal health care.

Interventions have also been conducted due to personal habits not as frequently considered seriously harmful, such as video game addiction, excessive computer use, and excessive television viewing.

Counselling interventions
Education-first level of intervention. emphazised the parental influence of caring,support,encouragement and stimulaton to co-operate.

Counselling- second level of intervention- it is focused upon specific problems and it is time bound

Direct and indirect interventions

Direct interventions , typically involving a confrontational meeting with the alcohol or other drug dependent person (the most typical type of intervention) Indirect intervention, involving work with a co-dependent family to encourage them to be more effective in helping the addicted individual.

Different types of interventions used by different counsellers

1. Effective interventions- Seek help for overwhelming emotions. :- it help the client to identify emotions,modify troublesome feelings etc 2. Cognitive interventions- problems resulting from thinking too much, Here the counselor helps to change the mistaken beliefs, attitudes or pattern of thinking

3. Behavioral interventions- helps clients to develop adaptive and supportive behaviors. This focuses on the outward demonstration of a clients inner feelings. The counselor helps the client to avoid the bad feelings and there by reaching to his goals and objectives.

Counselling strategies
Counselling strategies can be a powerful means of helping people and must be used appropriately. Professional and ethical conduct demand that the strategies be explained to clients and their permission sought to proceed.

Counseling strategies
The goal of adaptive treatment strategies is to provide treatment that optimizes response. In the standard or the fixed treatment strategy, on the other hand, the composition and dosage of the treatment is designed such that it meets the common needs or characteristics of individual subjects.

An example of a fixed treatment strategy is school based drug abuse prevention curriculum. It is delivered to all students in a school. Different components of the multi-component intervention are included in the curriculum, and offered to all the students.

 EXAMPLE OF AN ADAPTIVE STRATERGY It consists of two adaptive components : absence of drug free analyses and attendance at counseling sessions.

Action strategies
a) b) c) d) Behavioural techniques Systematic desensitization behaviour contracts Social modeling Assertion training

Problem solving strategies

Identify and clarify the problem Establish priorities in choosing problems for attention Establish workable goals Take a census of available means for reaching the goals Choose the means that will most effectively achieve established goals Establish criteria for the effectiveness of he action Programs