Therapist interventions: Do they really influence client resistance?

Scot M. Allgood; Richard J. Bischoff; Thomas A. Smith; Connie J. Salts

doi:10.1080/01926189208250903

Therapist interventions: Do they really influence client resistance?

Scot M. Allgood, Richard J. Bischoff, Thomas A. Smith, Connie J. Salts

Children, Youth and Family Studies

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	333-340
Number of pages	8
Journal	American Journal of Family Therapy
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01926189208250903
State	Published - 1992

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Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology

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