Activity 3 Overcoming barriers to change

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Activity 3Overcoming barriers to change
The National Programme for Specialist Leaders of
Behaviour and Attendance innovative,
effective, practical
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Motivational interviewing

• A cognitive behavioural strategy that aims to
  develop internal motivation
• Internal motivation to change behaviour involves
  developing
• Sense of competency (I have the skills to do
  it, self-belief)
• Goals (I know what I want)
• Self-efficacy (I can make a difference)
• Internal locus of control (attribute own
  actions as cause of success/failure, not
  situation or other people)

Based on a model proposed by Prochaska and Di
Clemente (1982) Eddie McNamara Positive pupil
management and motivation a secondary teachers
guide. David Fulton Publishers ISBN 1853466344
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Motivational interviewing
Which bit of behaviour change does it address?

• Deciding you want to change
• Translating the commitment into successful action

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The 5 stages of change

• Pre-contemplative
• Contemplative
• Determinism
• Action
• (and maintenance)
• Relapse

When the child gets to Stage 3 interventions and
programmes begin to be useful
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The pre-contemplative stage

• Characteristics
• Lack of knowledge/ awareness/ concern
• Overwhelmed. Given up on possibility of change
• Hostile and resistant (but underneath scared and
  insecure)
• External attribution of problem
• Behaviour is meeting childs needs (e.g. for peer
  group approval)
• Aims
• To increase knowledge/ awareness
• To move on to next stage
• To build relationship

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Contemplative

• Characteristics
• Considering pros and cons
• Willing to acknowledge and consider
• problem
• Changes may be considered
• desirable and beneficial
• NOTE This does not equate to making a
• decision to change
• Aims
• To increase feelings of self-efficacy
• To increase internal attribution (locus of
  control)
• To elicit self-motivational statements
• Problem recognition, I guess I have a problem.
• Expression of concern, The way I am gets me into
  trouble
• Intention of changes
• I would like to do it differently.
• Optimism about change, maybe I can do it
  differently.

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Determinism

• Characteristics
• Child is ready for and committed to action.
• This may not be a stable state.
• Commitment and enthusiasm cannot make up for a
  lack of skills
• Aims
• To arrive at a do-able action plan
• To anticipate obstacles and think through how
  they might be overcome
• To maintain, self-belief, optimism etc.

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