Open AccessTheoretical approaches to behavior change in myofunctional therapy
Author(s) -
H. G. Sergl,
Aeron Zentner
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the international journal of orofacial myology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2694-2526
pISSN - 0735-0120
DOI - 10.52010/ijom.1994.20.1.5
Subject(s) - psychology , control (management) , quality (philosophy) , compliance (psychology) , cognitive psychology , patient compliance , applied psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology , emergency medicine
The effectiveness of myofunctional therapy depends not only on the quality of the individual exercises but also considerably on the patient's compliance. In this paper, factors are described which may decisively influence patients motivation to cooperate during treatment. Based on experience in dealing with patients, clinical studies and psychological knowledge, theoretical approaches to patient motivation are discussed, namely aspects of verbal communication, control, reward, behavior agreement as well as verbal self-control and self-reward.