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From: Gunars
Date: 08 Oct 2006
Time: 06:00:43 -0500
Remote Name: 67.183.183.115
y'all, Motivational interviewing, often used in the framework of addiction, may be another framework from which to examine stuttering. It is based on defining Stages of Change: 1) Precontemplative, where a person has no intentions of changing, 2) Contemplative, when a person is thinking about change, 3) Determination, the stage where a person decides to change, 4) Action, the stage where with or without a therapists help the person does things to change, 5) Maintenance, where client continues activities to stabilize his change, and 6) Relapse, where a person goes back to his or her original state. I add another state, the 7)ACTION/THERAPY FAILURE stage. I hypothesize that most of the people who have adult perseverative stuttering syndrome are in the 7) action/therapy failure stage which is an insidious form of 1)precontemplative stage. Am I right? If I am right how can we move them out of these stage? Gunars