1st Edition

Motivating Clients in Therapy Values, Love and the Real Relationship

By Richard L. Rappaport Copyright 1997
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Clients who come to psychotherapy unmotivated, or who become discouraged as treatment progresses, pose a singular challenge to practitioners. Despite the central importance of motivation for the therapeutic healing process, little has been written that addresses this issue. Motivating Clients in Therapy questions the widely accepted assumption of the adequately motivated client. Richard... Read more
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Chapter 1: Motivation and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Chapter 2: Why Motivation is an Ignored Construct in Psychotherapy: The Myth of Client Motivation
Chapter 3: An Evolutionary Model of Psychological Health and Motivation: Toward Individuation
Chapter 4: Motivation in Everyday Life
Chapter 5: Motivation in Psychotherapy
Chapter 6: Separating Motivational and Psychopathological Phenomena: The Role of The Theory in Psychotherapy
Chapter 7: The Therapeutic Basis for Selecting Interventions: The Place of Values in Psychotherapy
Chapter 8: Motivating Clients in the Beginning of Therapy
Chapter 9: Motivating Clients in the Midphase of Therapy
Chapter 10: Motivating Clients in the Endphase of Therapy
Chapter 11: Post-Therapy Motivation.

Biography

Richard Rappaport is a psychologist in private practice in Philadelphia and is the director of the Center for Comprehensive Therapy in Washington, D.C. He is the co-author of Working with Adult Incest Survivors.