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SURVEYOR’S GUIDE TO BASIC REMOTIVATION THERAPY STANDARDS (in part)

This guide is to help federal, state or private surveying agencies determine if a facility or program follows the standards established by the National Remotivation Therapy Organization Inc.  Only those persons properly trained and certified by a certified National Remotivation Therapy Organization instructor may consider themselves to be a Remotivation Therapist.  This guide should be used to insure quality care and the protection of the consumer from the misrepresentation of services provided to the public.

Standards

1.      The person conducting group therapy sessions must be able to present to the surveyor a National Remotivation Therapy Organization Inc. Basic or Advanced Course certificate.

2.      The Remotivator must have a written meeting plan in the format outlined below for each Basic session conducted.  The Remotivator may use the same meeting plan for groups other than the group for which it was written.

3.      The Remotivator must not lecture during the session.  He/she only asks the questions written on the meeting plan and follows up with questions to facilitate an objective group discussion centered on the topic of the meeting plan.

4.      If the Remotivator answers the questions he or she asks or self discloses, then it must be done after all of the group members have already done so.

5.      A non-judgmental, climate of acceptance is maintained throughout the session.  The Remotivator never comments positively or negatively about the answers of the group, instead the Remotivator thanks the person for their opinion whether or not it is correct.

6.      Questions should be open-ended to guarantee success for all group members.  Sensory aides, such as pictures, objects, and simple role-play, may reinforce questions.

7.      Questions are geared to the ability level of the group members, the lower the level of functioning the simpler and more direct are the questions.

8.      Each written meeting plan has five steps.  The Remotivator only used the steps that he/she thinks the group can tolerate without producing agitation or discomfort.

9.      Each member of the group must be given the opportunity to give his/her answer to each question asked in all of the steps.  If the group member responds in silence, the Remotivator thanks the member for the silent response in order to communicate that the member is accepted even though an answer has not been given.

10.  The questions in Step #2 should be asked in the “third person”, for example “what do people do?” or  “what does a person do?” until the Remotivator determines that the group member will not be threatened by asking a “you” question in the “first person”.

THE FIVE STEPS IN A REMOTIVATION SESSION

In Remotivation Sessions, five steps should be followed in sequence.  Each step stands alone.  Starting with Step #1 on a one-on-one basis to establish trust, the visits doing Step #1s and some Step #2s may be necessary to build enough trust in the client to successfully respond to an invitation to a group session.  If the person cannot attend group sessions for medical reasons, complete one-on-one sessions may be conducted with the person in their room, home or other location.