MY PERSONAL THERAPY ENTITLED MOTIVATION THERAPY

INTRODUCTION:

     Teachers is not only imparting knowledge to the child, not only to teach how to socialized with others to his peers and classmates but also on how the child being motivated inside and outside the classroom. You've heard the cliche',You can lead a horse to a water, but you can't make him drink."Motivating students is like that. It involves not only leading them to topics, but also making them thirsty for knowledge and understanding of these topics. That the learner must be motivated to learn is a basic principle in the teaching-learning process.

VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE:

    Motivation is the process of arousing and sustaining the interest in an activity in order to achieve a goal. It is also the creation of a desire on the part of the learner to perform an activity to satisfy a need. Students motivation has to do with students desire to participate in the learning process. It also concerns the reasons or goals that underlie their involvement in academic activities. Although students may be equally motivated to perform a task, the sources of motivation may differ.

     Clearly a deficit in any of the categories may affect the student’s performance. Students who are hungry or fearful may find it difficult to concentrate on their studies. Students who feel rejected and isolated may refuse to participate fully in class activities.

DEVELOPMENT OF MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

     Motivation Therapist believes that when achievement is aroused, people tend to attribute the performance to one of the following: ability, effort, and luck or task difficulty.

    Motivation therapist can mean the difference between success and failure in the class. Success is attributed to high effort; failure is seen as resulting from low ability or low effort.

FUNCTION OF THE THERAPIST

     Motivation therapist influenced by the individuals’ states, beliefs, interests, goals, and habits of thinking. They inspire, challenge, and stimulate the clients’ ability.  Motivation therapist encourages and support their clients natural curiosity and motivation to learn by attending to individual differences in their perceptions of optimal novelty and difficulty, relevance, and personal choice and control.

GOALS OF THE THERAPY

     The purpose of the motivation therapy is to help clients to regulate and arouse their interest, perception of its usefulness, general desire to achieve, self-confidence, and self-esteem as well as patience and persistence. Encourage the clients to participate in the learning process. Allowing clients to express their needs, desire, or wants.

MAJOR METHOD AND TECHNIQUES

     Motivation therapist formulated basic methods and techniques to arouse the interest, needs and skills of each client.

     ENVIRONMENT

These techniques help the client in learning process. Once the environment creates warm and accepting yet business-like atmospheres will promote persistent effort and favourable attitudes towards learning. Interesting environment motivates clients by capturing their attention and curiosity.

     FOCUSING

This method can mean the difference between success and failure. Outcomes is not so much a result of what is achieved by the therapist, but of what to be achieved by the client. When you learn how to focus, you will discover some intelligence, knowledge base and skills.

     INCENTIVES MOTIVATE LEARNING

Incentives include privileges and receiving praise. Therapists determine an incentive that is likely to motivate an individual at particular time. Client must find satisfaction in learning based on understanding.

     ORGANIZED MATERIALS

This technique makes the information meaningful to the individual. It includes relating new tasks to those already know. Other ways to relay meanings are to determine whether the person is being taught understand the final outcome desired and instruct them to compare and contrasts idea. Organization of materials enhanced the interest of the child.

APPLICATION

    Kevin is a 7-year-old child. In class discussion he is very timid and during their class activity he did not participate and interact with his classmates. He is alone in one corner. Teacher observed Kevin behaviour and he discovers that he has a low esteem and he has no interest in lesson. Teacher give individual activity to everybody so that each of them will be participated. Teacher think isolation in Kevin’s part  will be washed-out once he fully participate in class activities