Working with Resistance in Therapy: A Theoretical Evaluation
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2021
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Clients sometimes have difficulties to express themselves in therapy or may resist the therapy process. There are many reasons of clients’ who have difficulties to express themselves and resist in counselling sessions. Understanding the resistance of the client can be useful to understand the therapeutic relationship, the causes of resistance and other problems it creates, or to motivate the client with the help of interventions. In this context, this article focuses on client resistant within general definitions considering the psychological counselling approaches. As a result of this review article, it was determined that the resistance of the clients in therapy is clustered around the concepts of “maintaining the problems—denial and distortion of experience”, “coping process”, “to share or not to share: counsellor self-disclosure”.
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Resistance, Psychological Counselling, Self-defence, Denial, Distortion