Case study:Your name is David and you are a 36-year-old male journalist who has a very demanding job which involves working long hours. You have been smoking since you were at university and you...

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Assignment
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer due to the deposition of soot tar and nicotine in the lung cavity of a patient used to an excessive cigarette smoking habit. Donald’s father died recently due to lung cancer. His friend advised him to stop smoking frequently as he may also die due to lung cancer. Another responsible for excessive smoking is the work stress related to working for many hours in the office continuously. A counselor appointed for this patient should put him under motivational interviewing strategies and therapeutic communication to improve his mental well-being and decrease the amount of stress present in his mind. The motivational strategy involves understanding the requirements of the patient, ensuring proper coordination and communication and providing confidence to the patient to overcome the bad and tumultuous times that the patient might face in his life (Hall et al., 2012).
The counselor should be able to change the mindset of the patient from a negative thinking perspective to a positive thinking perspective allowing the patient to improve his health condition. A patient should discuss his mindset with his counselor regularly so that there is no lack of coordination and misunderstanding between them. A deep understanding of the past and the present problems that a patient might be facing are necessary to understand and interpret. A counselor needs to understand the negative emotions present in the brain of a patient...