This is the home page of the National Remotivation Therapy Organization, NRTO Inc.
For Information Contact:
Ms. Beverly Gruber
NRTO Executive Secretary
N.R.T.O.
P.O. Box 5
New Tripoli, PA 18066
Phone: (610) 767-5026
We are a nonprofit 501c(3) charitable organization that promotes the use of remotivation methods in the service of others.
We hope that remotivation is a skill that you find helpful in your relationships with other people, in either in professional service, family life or social life.
Important Quotes and Resources in Support of Remotivation Therapy:
Patient Education/Counseling Strategies
An underlying principle of patient education and counseling is that knowledge is necessary but not sufficient to change health behaviors. If knowledge alone could accomplish changes in health behavior, there would be many fewer smokers and more exercisers. Patient education involves more than simply telling people what to do or giving them an instructional pamphlet. Source: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd Edition. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 1996.
Psychoeducation as an Evidenced Based Intervention
Why Psychoeducation? Patients, even with the best of intentions, rarely follow prescribed regimens of care perfectly and often disregard them completely. For many aches, pains, and other distressing symptoms, medical science often offers either imperfect relief or therapy more distressing than the initial symptoms. Psychoeducation is an effective way to help close some of these gaps between the theoretical ideal and the reality each of us must live with on a daily basis (Page 101) Part of the solution is mobilizing the resiliency and inner strength of human beings and helping them more effectively help themselves to deal with painful and difficult circumstances. (Page 102)
Source: http://download.ncadi.samhsa.gov/ken/pdf/SMA04-3906/SMA04_3906Update.pdf
Nitzkin, J. L., & Smith, S. (2004). Clinical preventive services in substance abuse and mental health update: From science to services (DHHS Publication No.(SMA) 04-3906). Rockville, MD: Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
Article Link: Psychologist uses psychoeducation groups to quickly build her practice.
News Update: Classes are forming at the National Lutheran Home and Village of Rockville, Md. for certification. They can call for information at 301-424-9560 ext. 221, Adele Warnke, Volunteer Director
Remotivation therapy is a set of individual and group skills that you can use to "motivate" those you serve.
Remotivation is a well researched, evidenced based, psychosocial educational methodology. It is based on over 40 years of experience with people of all ages, in school, at home and in residential settings.
Individual Remotivation
The use of remotivation begins in all cases in a one to one relationship. Remotivation sessions can be conducted individually with one person in their home, in their room at a residential facility or at any comfortable location agreeable to both parties. Individual remotivation is practiced one to one when the person cannot or will not meet with a group. One example is with those who are homebound and receive home health care.
Group Remotivation
Remotivation is conducted in groups of typically 6-8 persons and up to 15 persons. The size of the group is determined by the remotivation leader who invites members to the group. The size of the group is limited to match the functional ability of the members. People who have servere emotional or neurological problems function best in smaller groups of 4-8 members. The training of the remotivator prepares him or her to adjust the size of the group to best meet the needs of the members. Both individual and group remotivation session are designed with process and content that meets the needs of the persons invited to the group meeting.
Remotivation as a Therapy
In 1971 when NRTO Inc. was formed, remotivation was described as a "technique". NRTO. Inc. changed its name to "therapy" at a later time. The words technique and the word therapy have very different meanings to lay people and to professionals. When remotivation was first developed, it was not considered a "formal therapy", but rather a technique with "therapeutic benefits". Whether remotivation is described at a technique or a therapy depends largely how and in what context it is practiced. When introduced to a medical setting, Dr. Smith described it as an approach that focused on the well, healthy, unwounded aspects of the patient. As such, remotivators intentionally avoid the sick, unhealthy, wounded or problematic aspects of the person.
Remotivation is described as therapy when it is practiced as part of a treatment program or plan of care for a sick or diseased person. In this context, remotivation is practiced by staff supervised by state licensed professionals. Medicaid, Medicare and private insurance dictate who can be re-imbursed for providing remotivation in private practice setting in the community. In most states, to be reimbursed directly by insurance, one must be a state licensed health or mental health professional or be "directly supervised" in the clinic or hospital by the licensed professional.
Remotivation as an Educational Technique
Dorothy Hoskins Smith, the professor from Claremont College, CA ,who developed remotivation, taught children's literature to teachers. She developed remotivation from her knowledge of adult/elementary education and psychology. It is an excellent method of motivating children and adults to learn, to engage in school work and to do normal activities of daily living. It can be used in health education to teach people to care for themselves, to prevent illnesses and to live more productive lives. It is an excellent tool in primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in schools and in the community.
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