Meeting with a therapist to resolve unhelpful behaviours, beliefs, feelings,
or relationship problems is known as therapy, psychotherapy, or counselling.
Unfortunately, at times people unintentionally make mistakes while taking
counseling sessions that makes the outcome of therapy poor.
1. Missing out on homework:
When the client does not show sincerity in doing the therapy work or tasks
given by the psychologist, it creates obstacles in effectiveness of therapy.
This may happen due to lack of comprehension regarding therapy work.
2.Increased Absenteeism:
Due to lack of awareness regarding mental health, people tend to show
irregularity in counseling sessions which in turn leads to poor prognosis in
therapy. Frequent absenteeism generally breaks the flow of sessions and also
hampers the rapport formation between therapist and the client.
3. Being Dishonest:
Therapeutic relationship is based on non judgemental attitude of therapist and
mutual trust between the two. However, when the client is dishonest in
therapy, the effort of the therapist goes in vain. This can happen
unintentionally also when client is not consciously aware about his or her
resistance.
4.Unreasonable Expectations from therapist:
When client lacks patience, they tend to over expect from the therapist
regarding therapy outcomes. This may create trouble and hamper the quality of
therapy. Counseling sessions provide long term results but as it does not
involve medications, it requires persistence and consistency from the client
which when fails, leads to poor results in counseling sessions.
5.Over Generalizations:
At times, due to bad past experience with any other
Therapist
, client generalizes it and does not put effort in reaching towards goals of
therapy. Lack of motivation and unwillingness shown by the client also
contributes in lowering the effectiveness of
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sessions.
In order to reduce chances of mistakes by the client, it is important to
spread awareness regarding the same. Therapists can contribute to this by
keeping these areas in mind and use variety of tools and techniques to build a
strong rapport and make therapy sessions more interesting.
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