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A 12 page paper that discusses specific issues in this field. Topics discussed include resistant clients, self-efficacy, recurring themes in therapy, and terminating therapy. The writer comments on minority groups and the need for understanding and how the writer would like to be treated as a client. Examples are included. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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from the familiar and what is comfortable. In psychotherapy, the term resistance is defined as any client behavior that suggests the client opposes the process or what the therapist has
said (Watson & McMullen, 2005). Theorists have identified several categories related to client resistance: challenging the therapist, disagreeing, blaming, defending self, defending other people, expressing their feelings of hopelessness, getting
off topic, failing to respond to what the therapist has said or asked, failing to answer questions, blaming things on others, insisting on their own agenda that is not helpful,
talking over the therapist (Watson & McMullen, 2005). Resistance should not be ignored because it can lead to failed therapy (Stewart & Chambless, 2008). In trying to explain why psychodynamic
clinicians were less likely to refer a client when therapy was not progressing than were cognitive-behavioral clinicians, they suggested that psychodynamic practitioners may conclude that lack of progress has to
do with the clients resistance to changing behaviors (Stewart & Chambless, 2008). Watson and McMullen (2005) investigated behaviors of both client and therapist in cognitive-behavioral therapy and in process experiential
therapy (PET). They considered strength of alliances as it was related to resistance. Watson and McMullen (2005) found that some clients exhibit resistance when the therapist is directive while clients
were more cooperative in non-directive sessions but in most cases, the degree of directiveness did not affect the clients cooperation. They also found that resistance was observed in low-alliance sessions
with PET than in high-alliance sessions (Watson and McMullen, 2005). Some of the strategies therapists can use when challenged with client resistance include: different kinds of reflection, reframing, and emphasizing
the clients autonomy (Miller & Rollnick, 2002). Therapists need to be familiar with these tactics. My strengths include establishing rapport, empathy, and the ability to use the strategies just identified.
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