Motivational Techniques for Individual and Group Psychotherapy
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 54 (1) , 271-277
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1984.54.1.271
Abstract
A number of techniques are mentioned which may be utilized to improve patients' motivation during psychotherapy. Since patients' over-all motivation seems decisive in eventual therapeutic outcome and since inadequate motivation combined with resistance factors might exacerbate patients' ultimate prognoses, if not continuation in treatment, supporting patients' motivation to do the therapeutic work should prove beneficial in all phases of therapy. More careful attention to such techniques might lessen premature termination.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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