Don't Lose Your Patients: Responding to Clients Who Want to Quit Treatment

by Herbert S. Strean

Premature termination--patient dropout, in Dr. Herbert s. Strean's dependably conversational idiom--is a blow to the therapist's self-esteem, professional status, and pocketbook. Traditionally, responsibility for it has been imputed to the patient's resistance or lack or loss of motivation.

In keeping with contemporary recognition that the therapeutic process is a reciprocally influential partnership, however, Dr. Strean teases out and examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701715
• ISBN13: 9780765701718
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"