It also examines how rehabilitation nurses perceive their role in assessing the alteration of self-concept and the interventions they use in helping patients to develop a more positive perception of themselves.
This will help patients to develop more efficient strategies for accepting the disease and coping with it.
13, 14 This similarity could be the result of continuous counseling at each contact with health professionals and the use of behavior rehearsal technique, which is aimed at helping patients to develop healthy behaviors, including disclosure of HIV-positive status to sexual partner.
Education and training help patients to develop living patterns that incorporate self-management.
The psychologist helps the patient to develop her psychosocial skills, test out new behaviours and call upon the external resources available such as the SEIS platform in order to promote the return to work.
This is a valuable service that supports patients in the process of making difficult decisions and helps patients develop skills to promote their own health".
The quality of life of osteoporotic patients should be investigated even before fractures, in order to develop appropriate counselling, support and care interventions to help patients develop efficient strategies for accepting the disease and coping with it.
This highlights the importance of a bio-psycho-social framework and non-drug behavioural interventions, including relaxation training, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and biofeedback to help patients develop self-management skills and strategies to prevent and manage their headaches [20].
In this respect, therapeutic interventions to increase executive function including impulse control may help patients develop coping skills to abstain from using drugs when exposed to cocaine-cues.
One way for the DTCs to use this is to engage in patient-orientated educational activities designed to help patients develop a better understanding of the benefits and risks of treatment alternatives, thus influencing the physicians.
