1. Verbal persuasions |
• Staff and lay leader explanations |
• Promotion of physician and therapeutic recommendations |
2. Social modeling/vicarious experiences |
• Staff and lay leader demonstration of all strategies and new behaviors |
• Peers practice behavior in group meetings and share vicarious experiences |
• View material depicting stroke patients similar to them |
3. Past achievements/failures |
• Set realistic, achievable behavioral goals |
• Past failures may influence current level of effort so plan to overcome past failures |
• Gain an understanding of the course of stroke rehabilitation and realistic outcome expectations |
• Negotiate the effort placed into cardiovascular risk factor modification |
4. Reinterpretation of sensations/physical state |
• Discuss symptoms and how to diminish |
• Employ distraction methods — mental imagery |
• Employ relaxation techniques |