Case study: Your name is David and you are a 36-year-old male journalist who has a very demanding...

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Case study: Your name is David and you are a 36-year-old male journalist who has a very demanding job which involves working long hours. You have been smoking since you were at university and you estimate that you cu
ently smoke between 30-40 cigarettes a day. You love to catch up with your friends at the pub for a smoke and a drink as you say it helps you relax. You have tried to stop smoking on a number of occasions, with limited success as you suffer badly from nicotine withdrawal. Your father recently died of lung cancer at age 68 after many years of smoking. In his final stages of cancer, Donald was in a great deal of pain and distress. You are wo
ied that if you keep smoking like this, you will end up with lung cancer like your dad.
Using the case study above you must write a script interview being the healthcare professional, whilst also playing the patient/client (David).
You will need to use Motivational Interviewing techniques and therapeutic communication skills to understand and address your client’s feelings, concerns and negative health behaviours. You will need to show how you will assist your client to move to more positive health behaviours.
Prior to making the script interview think about and prepare – What are the issues? How might they feel? What are the troublesome aspects of your client’s situation? How can you assist them to explore and create better health outcomes into the future? And address every aspect in your script using Motivational Interviewing Techniques and Therapeutic Communication Skills.

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Cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer due to the deposition of soot tar and nicotine in the lung cavity of a patient used to an excessive cigarette smoking habit. Donald’s father died recently due to lung cancer. His friend advised him to stop smoking frequently as he may also die due to lung cancer. Another responsible for excessive smoking is the work stress related to working for many hours in the office continuously. A counselor appointed for this patient should put him under motivational interviewing strategies and therapeutic communication to improve his mental well-being and decrease the amount of stress present in his mind. The motivational strategy involves understanding the requirements of the patient, ensuring proper coordination and communication and providing confidence to the patient to overcome the bad and tumultuous times that the patient might face in his life (Hall et al., 2012).
The counselor should be able to change the mindset of the patient from a negative thinking perspective to a positive thinking perspective allowing the patient to improve his health condition. A patient should discuss his mindset with his counselor regularly so that there is no lack of coordination and misunderstanding between them. A deep understanding of the past and the present problems that a patient might be facing are necessary to understand and interpret.

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