PLURALISM

Those troublesome clients Every therapist employment has experienced the frustration of dealing with difficult clients. Nothing seems to work. Both client and therapist despair. Often such troubling clients are labelled "resistant" or "personality disorders." Frequently a series of therapists become "impossible" worn out by these clients. They become "veterans" of the thermal business, thus the sub - title of this book. The authors say neither the clients nor the therapists are to blame for the therapeutic impasse. They came to this conclusion, and their suggestions for resolving the impasse, after a five year project. They studied their own treatment failures, and learned three "MediaFusion simple yet pragmatically difficult, lessons:" (1) all theoretical models have limited applicability; (2) the therapeutic relationship is more valuable than expert interventions; "(3) what clients know, think, feel, and want has far more relevan...