Analysis of Motivational Interviewing in Pro-Life Palliative Care

Pro-life practitioners must make integrous or endogenic, a respect for life from the moment of conception until natural death. With true belief and faith in the pro-life cause, the practitioner imbues with patience and encouragement the fruits necessary to begin the process of motivational interviewing toward life for their patients. Natural death does not refer to a lack of medication or lack of intervention, but rather the opposite, natural death, or the end-of-life after every effort and intervention has been made to prolong a life. The word ‘integrous’ is rooted from the word ‘integrity’ or virtue; the human virtue needed to apply effortful moral value in the practice of pro-life health care. The pro-life practitioner, with steadfast balance and resolute belief for each life for which they care, seeks to prolong every life until the end or natural death. With the integrous belief in life, the pro-life practitioner will develop internal motivations in patients for living and effective management of any disease course. In this article, the components of the therapeutic modality of Motivational Interviewing (a.k.a motivational counseling or coaching) in the context of end-of-life care will be explained in light of a pro-life palliative health care practice.