Client Obstacles to Psycho-therapeutic Change

In therapy, the psycho-therapeutic change refers towards the positive and helpful change. In other words, psychotherapy helps the client in dealing with their unhelpful and irrational beliefs. Both client and therapist play a significant for a successful therapy.

Most of the times, the client reserve about their rational beliefs that creates hurdle in resolving their conflicts and these are:

1. Full-preferences by the client can lead towards the decreased motivation in reaching goal.

2. Non-awfulzing beliefs can minimize the response towards the badness of negative event and condone other’s bad behavior.

3. High frustration tolerance beliefs discourages you from changing negative events.

4. Self-acceptance beliefs encourage complacency or condone one’s behavior.

5. Sometimes client thinks that insight is enough; which is actually not.

6. Client does not understand the concept of self-help.

7. Last but not least, the client is not prepare to work for change and in that case the client try to give excuses like:

“I do not have the time to carry out self-help assignments”.

8. Client is intolerant of the discomfort and unfamiliarity of change.

9. Client believes that he has no freedom of choice in their actions.

10. Sometimes client believes that the validation of distress is the purpose of therapy.