SPECIALIST COMPETENCE EXAM |
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The strongest predicator of long lasting behavioral change is - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ The relationship between the personal trainer and the
client.
: Inspiring change in the client begins with - Accurate Answers✔✔✔
Understanding the client on a fundamental level.
: Research by Prochaska and colleagues has shown that interventions to
change behavior are _______________ if they are "stage-matched," that
is, "matched to each individual's stage of change". - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ More effective
Which is not a factor necessary for people to change - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Someone to hold them accountable to change
People in the pre-contemplation stage - Accurate Answers✔✔✔
Minimize the risks of not changing.
In the contemplation stage people weigh the benefits and risks of change
- Accurate Answers✔✔✔ Equally.
, Assessing the stage of change can be helped with - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Open-ended questions.
People in the pre-contemplation stage can be helped by - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Shifting the decisional balance.
People in the action stage can be helped by - Accurate Answers✔✔✔
Commitment strategies
When in the maintenance stage, which is helpful - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Assessing and managing stressors.
The goal of the motivational interviewing coach is to - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Expose the client's ambivalence.
Creating discrepancy through open-ended questions will - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Enhance motivation for positive change.
Which is NOT an assumption of motivational interviewing? - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Change must begin from outside the client.
Which is NOT a principle of motivational interviewing? - Accurate
Answers✔✔✔ Create accountability.
An empathic style ____________________. - Accurate Answers✔✔✔
Listens rather than tells.