TY - JOUR
T1 - Therapist interventions
T2 - Do they really influence client resistance?
AU - Allgood, Scot M.
AU - Bischoff, Richard J.
AU - Smith, Thomas A.
AU - Salts, Connie J.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Client resistance is one of the focal points in most approaches to marital and family therapy. Many approaches conceptualize resistance as something to be reduced for therapy to be effective; however, the structural and strategic therapies are unique because they also conceptualize change as resulting from interventions that use resistance. The present study compared the amount of resistance that was engendered between interventions that use resistance and those that decrease resistance. The interventions that were designed to use resistance as well as defusing conflict both had statistically higher resistance ratios than the rest of the interventions.
AB - Client resistance is one of the focal points in most approaches to marital and family therapy. Many approaches conceptualize resistance as something to be reduced for therapy to be effective; however, the structural and strategic therapies are unique because they also conceptualize change as resulting from interventions that use resistance. The present study compared the amount of resistance that was engendered between interventions that use resistance and those that decrease resistance. The interventions that were designed to use resistance as well as defusing conflict both had statistically higher resistance ratios than the rest of the interventions.
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U2 - 10.1080/01926189208250903
DO - 10.1080/01926189208250903
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84933495320
VL - 20
SP - 333
EP - 340
JO - The American Journal of Family Therapy
JF - The American Journal of Family Therapy
SN - 0192-6187
IS - 4
ER -