Working with Resistance in Therapy: A Theoretical Evaluation

Abstract

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 study focus on to investigate client resistant within general definitions considering the counselling approaches. As a result of the research, 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”.

Keywords

• Psychological Counselling
• Resistance
• Self-defence
• Denial
• Distortion

Terapide Dirençle Çalışmak: Teorik Bir Değerlendirme

Öz

Danışanlar bazen terapide kendilerini ifade etmekte zorlanabilir ya da terapiye karşı direnç gösterebilir. Danışmanlık seanslarında kendilerini ifade etmekte güçlük çeken, direnç gösteren danışanların birçok nedeni vardır. Danışanın direncini anlamak, terapötik ilişkiyi, direncin nedenlerini ve oluşturduğu diğer problemleri anlamak ya da müdahaleler yardımıyla danışanı motive etmek için faydalı olabilir. Bu bağlamda, bu çalışma danışan direncini genel tanımlar içinde danışma yaklaşımları dikkate alınarak araştırmaya odaklanmaktadır. Araştırma sonucunda danışanların terapideki direncinin “problemleri sürdürme-deneyimin reddi ve çarpıtılması”, “başa çıkma süreci”, “paylaşma ya da paylaşmama: danışman kendini ifade etme" kavramları etrafında kümelendiği görülmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Psikolojik Danışmanlık
• Direnç,
• Öz Savunma
• İnkar
• Çarpıtma

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