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The number of chronically ill patients in high-income countries rises dramatically. Therefore, organisations invest in return to work programs. The basic idea of rehabilitation is to give people the chance to live a self-determined life. An important aspect of this process is rehabilitation psychology. In the role of a patient, every person should operate in his best possible interests, and should learn to make the right medical decisions for their future life. Weeks before, this person was an expert in decision-making, merely in his work environment. As a patient, this person is just a layman with a huge overload of data, information and therapies. This person has still the same intuition, the same implicit program and he or she still needs motivation. The methodology is primarily based on secondary data. This chapter uses a deductive approach, as implicit effects based on models and decision-making will be observed in correlation with basic models. For the analysis, quantitative and qualitative data taken from other studies by the authors are used. The new information overflow in the medical field empowers patients and at the same time shifts responsibility to them and contributes to the complexity of self-managing illness and rehabilitation. For the patients, health and rehabilitation becomes a kind of ‘business’ and the decisions of the patients can be compared to those made by managers and experts. As a patient confronted with a new situation of illness or rehabilitation, we need both analytical processes in the areas where we are not experts and medical and management experts on the other side. People get the chance to invest time and effort in education and training, to be the experts we can really trust. Implicit motivation seems to be a powerful driver in the decision-making process in every situation. Patients need both motivation for their therapies, and rehabilitation and motivation to return to work. |
