Use techniques to increase patients’ motivation

Description

Encourage the patient`s motivation to change and promote the belief that therapy can help, using techniques and treatment engagement procedures for this purpose.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 7 occupations
  • Optional in 1 occupations
  • Total: 8 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 2 (Professionals)

Essential for

  • Occupational therapist
    Occupational therapists assist individuals or groups with occupational limitations due to diseases, physical disorders, and temporary or permanent mental disabilities in regaining …
  • Music therapist
    Music therapists use music-therapeutic interventions to treat patients with behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions to prevent, mitigate or eliminate symptoms and to change…
  • Speech and language therapist
    Speech and language therapists focus on the etiology, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of communication and swallowing disorders in people of all ages to help them …
  • Health psychologist
    Health psychologists deal with the various aspects of health related behaviour of individuals and groups, by helping individuals or groups prevent illness and promote healthy behav…
  • Psychotherapist
    Psychotherapists assist and treat healthcare users with varying degrees of psychological, psychosocial, or psychosomatic behavioural disorders and pathogenic conditions by means of…
  • Clinical psychologist
    Clinical psychologists diagnose, rehabilitate, and support individuals affected by mental, emotional, and behavioural disorders and problems as well as mental changes and pathogeni…
  • Art therapist
    An Art Therapist is a mental health professional who uses the creative process of art-making to improve and enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of individuals. A…

Optional for

  • Chiropractor
    Chiropractors are responsible for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders related to the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general heal…

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Last updated on February 19, 2026

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