Question by chamsiesaseb: remotivation therapy?
i need the meaning or the procedure

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Answer by ?Mrs. L
People can become unmotivated when they have experienced frequent failure in school, family, work or personal life. They can feel helpless and hopeless when they experience loss of loved ones or functional loss due to illness or disability. A person may feel overwhelmed by a chronic disease such as diabetes, stroke, mental illness or developmental disability. A young person may feel like life is too tough to handle and think about suicide.

Remotivation therapy is a set of individual and group skills that you can use to “remotivate” those you serve as a health/human services professional, as a teacher/counselor or as a health educator.

Remotivation is a well researched, evidenced based, psychosocial, educational method. It is based on over 40 years of experience with people of all ages, in school, at home and in residential settings.

Individual Remotivation
The use of remotivation begins in all cases in a one to one relationship. Remotivation sessions can be conducted individually with one person in their home, in their room at a residential facility or at any comfortable location agreeable to both parties. Individual remotivation is practiced one to one when the person cannot or will not meet with a group. One example is with those who are homebound and receive home health care. A person receiving one to one remotivation may be invited to a group remotivation session if the remotivator believes it will benefit the person. If the person declines the invitation, one to one remotivation may be continued without the person ever attending a group session. Another example of individual remotivation is in a patient’s room in a hospital and nursing home when the person is too sick to leave the room. Individual remotivation can be practice while performing other services to a person and as a means of outeach to community dwelling persons.

Group Remotivation
Remotivation is conducted in groups of typically 6-8 persons and up to 15 persons. The size of the group is determined by the remotivation leader who invites members to the group. The size of the group is limited to match the functional ability of the members. People who have neurological problems function best in smaller groups of 4-8 members. People who are experiencing serious emotional problems function better in smaller groups as well. The training of the remotivator prepares him or her to adjust the size of the group to best meet the needs of the members. Both individual and group remotivation session are designed with process and content that meets the needs of the persons invited to the group meeting. People of similar cognitive and emotional ability are invited to the same group so that sessions can be planned to meet their shared needs.

Remotivation as a Therapy
In 1971 when NRTO Inc. was formed, remotivation was described as a “technique”. NRTO. Inc. changed its name to “therapy” at a later time. The words technique and the word therapy have very different meanings to lay people and to professionals. When remotivation was first developed, it was not considered a “formal therapy”, but rather a technique with “therapuetic benefits”. Whether remotivation is described at a technique or a therapy depends largely how and in what context it is practiced. Remotivation is described as therapy when it is practiced as part of a treatment program or plan of care for a sick or diseased person. In this context, remotivation is practiced by staff supervised by state licensed or certified professionals. State laws govern these activities. Medicaid, medicare and private insurance dictate who can be re-imbursed for providing remotivation in these treatment settings.

Remotivation as an Educational Technique
Dorothy Hoskins Smith, the professor from Claremont College, CA who developed remotivation, taught childrens literature to teachers. She developed remotivation from her knowledge of adult/elementary education and psychology. When she introduced remotivation to a medical setting, she described it as an approach that focused on the well, healthy, unwounded aspects of the patient. As such, remotivators intentionally avoid the sick, unhealthy, wounded or problematic aspects of the person. Therefore, remotivation can be applied in non-medical settings with well people. It is an excellent method of motivating children and adults to learn. It can be used in health education to teach people to care for themselves, to prevent illnesses and to live more productive lives. It has also been used effectively as method of normalization with persons with developmental disabilities.

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