Client Resistance On Therapy
Resistance in therapy involves the unwillingness of a client to change and grow within therapy sessions. Persons of diverse cultures, natures, and personalities visit therapists for their reasons or because third parties referred them. However, because they did not visit therapists willingly, referred clients are often reluctant and show resistance during the initial stages of the process. Also, clients who begin therapy on their show resistance to the emotional discomfort that changes demands. Besides, adjustment is never easy, but it is scary and emotional. Therapy sessions are met with some resistant clients that are angry, argumentative, make excuses, sidetrack, and even deny their role in the problem (Wendelin, 2013). Arguing clients usually contest the correctness, skill, or reliability and might express direct hostility towards the therapist.
Clients who are uncomfortable talking about themselves or the topic at hand cut off and defensively interject therapists, making it hard to treat them. Additionally, these clients take over conversations and speak when the therapist is still talking, without waiting for a clause or pause (Wendelin, 2013). Also, they cut off the therapist with break-in words such as “I have heard enough,” thus interrupting the conversation or therapy session. Apart from making excuses about the issue at hand, some clients are unwilling to be aware of, work together, or become accountable for problems. Contrary, these resistant individuals blame others for the issues, disagree with suggestions made by the therapist, and tend to minimize by suggesting that the therapist is exaggerating risks or dangers (Wendelin, 2013). Additionally, the client’s ignorance as the response shows they were not listening, or by giving responses that were not an answer to the question asked. Clients also show ignorance through sidetracking by changing the course of the discussion that the psychoanalyst was following.