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1. HOMESEER SPEAKER CLIENT ISSUES HOW TO
2. HOMESEER SPEAKER CLIENT ISSUES PROFESSIONAL
3. HOMESEER SPEAKER CLIENT ISSUES SERIES

Even without a significant trauma history its never a good idea to send clients back into the world less put-together than when they arrived.

This can be especially problematic when treating clients with a deep trauma history. It can be incredibly difficult and sometimes even damaging for a client to visit his or her therapist, open up about something incredibly painful, and then have the therapist say, Im sorry, but our time is up. Not Allowing Sufficient Time for Processing.As such, even when we know that certain forms of treatment and therapy are typically the most useful with a particular pathology, we must be willing to relinquish that agenda and our need to fix the problem as quickly as possible.

HOMESEER SPEAKER CLIENT ISSUES SERIES

Typically, agenda related issues arise because a therapist is feeling impatient, seeing the clients issues and a series of potential solutions and wanting to solve things right away rather than allowing the client to experience his or her individual healing journey. Later, after a solid therapeutic alliance has been established, I can switch back to more direct interventions. Most of the time I end up switching to a softer, more interpersonal approach. In such cases, despite what I think and want, I must follow the pace and reality of the client. That said, some individuals will dig their heels in and rebel against the reading assignments and homework that are typically called for when providing CBT. For example, most of my work is with addiction and related issues, so Im a big fan of cognitive behavioral and social learning models, which are without question the most effective approach for early addiction intervention and treatment.

Sometimes a clients presenting issues can lead us into an agenda-driven choice of treatment methodology, regardless of the clients current needs and/or ability to receive that particular methodology. If your initial assessments are correct then you will probably need to eventually steer the client toward his or her primary underlying issues, but pushing for that before the client is ready is more likely to engender resentment than recovery. In fact, the client may not be ready to hear about or even consider those subjects. Nevertheless, the issues that stand out for us as clinicians may not be the issues that brought the client into therapy. And most of the time we can quickly envision useful interventions that might jumpstart a clients healing. Additionally, we are trained to pursue these concerns effectively and efficiently. After all, we are trained to observe and identify, quite early on in therapy, which client issues are primary and which are secondary.

HOMESEER SPEAKER CLIENT ISSUES PROFESSIONAL

That said, professional organizations have guidelines that are (and always should be) a therapists first line of defense in this regard.

HOMESEER SPEAKER CLIENT ISSUES HOW TO

A few of the more common therapeutic missteps are discussed below, along with suggestions on how to avoid them. Simply put, despite our good training, supervision, and continuing education, we occasionally make errors. However, given the stressful nature of our work, the lengthy and sometimes sporadic hours, the occasional inability to feel secure in our continued income, and even our own not-yet-totally-resolved issues, we sometimes fall a bit short of this lofty goal. As therapists, each of us would like to do exactly the right thing in each and every session.