The immediate effect of reframing on client attitude in family therapy.

Abstract

This study focused on the process of therapy with families of delinquent adolescents. Results demonstrated differential effects of functional family therapists' behaviors on family members' positivity-negativity as a function of family member role (i.e., mother, father, adolescent). More important, the data indicated that only following a therapist reframe was the adolescent's average response in the nonnegative range; following all other classes of therapist statement (i.e., frame, acknowledgment, pacer, prompt, other) the adolescent's average response valence was negative. Given the clinical importance of resistance and negativity in first therapy sessions, these results support the utility of (positive) cognitive restructuring techniques with conflicted, negative families.

Profiles of drug use behavior change for adolescents in treatment

“…Research on mechanisms of change in adolescent treatment may also provide some clues for understanding the relationship between client and therapist behaviors during therapy sessions and positive trajectories of change (Robbins, Alexander, Newell, & Turner, 1996;Robbins, Alexander, & Turner, 2000;Waldron, Turner, Barton, Alexander, & Cline, 1985). For example, some studies have found support for the link between the improvements in family functioning resulting from family therapy and subsequent reductions in adolescent problem behavior (Huey, Henggeler, Brondino, & Pickrell, 2000;Eddy & Chamberlain, 2000), although similar links for substance abuse treatments have yet to be established (Ozechowski & Liddle, 2000;Szapocznik et al, 1989;Waldron, 1998).…”

Adolescent and Parent Alliance and Treatment Outcome in Multidimensional Family Therapy.

“…This is because such adolescents are typically referred or mandated to treatment by others. They often approach therapy reluctantly and with negativity (Robbins, Alexander, Newell, & Turner, 1996;Taylor, Adelman, & KaserBoyd, 1985). Not only does this make alliance formation with this population more challenging but, ironically, it may also make it more critical to treatment outcome (Coatsworth, Santisteban, McBride, & Szapocznik, 2001;G.…”

Rethinking Client Resistance: A Narrative Approach to Integrating Resistance Into the Relationship‐Building Stage of Counseling

“…This tendency would then repeat itself in terms of receptivity to counseling and the dynamics that constitute effective helping. Families and counselors may not be in accord on issues such as (a) appropriate ownership of presenting relational problems, (b) relative preferences for stability versus change (Simon, 2003), (c) openness to external assistance, (d) investment in the change process, (e) willingness to consider alternative explanations of the presenting problem, and (f) relative preferences for focusing on the actions and motivations of the client versus those of others (Butler & Bird, 2000;Robbins, alexander, Newell, & Turner, 1996). Therefore, the client's in-session behaviors represent the enactment of family scripts regarding being helped.…”