In detail, techniques involve: Highlighting ways in which the client avoids responsibility, such as by using "cannot" for situations where "will not" is the case, and generates defences against the assumption of responsibility. This also involves confronting a client with the client's own behaviours. A client that, for example, complains of lonliness is reminded of this—"Is it any wonder that you are lonely?"—whenever the client belittles other people. Highlighting responsibility avoidance even in the therapist-client relationship itself, by observing any transfer of responsibility from the client to the therapist ("Tell me what to do!") and behaviours of the client towards the therapist that reflect responsibility avoidance in the client's life. Encouraging the assumption of responsbility for how the client deals with adverse external circumstances, such as serious illness and the client assuming responsibility for behaviour towards doctors. Encouraging the conversion of guilt about lack of self-actualization into assuming more responsibility for that lack. Confronting low affect, and encouraging the client to have desires and wishes for change, which become the seeds for a will to change, the mere wish to change being the first step towards that. Ungluing decision making processes stuck through fear, encouraging empowerment and the exercise of choice. Assumption of responsibility does not by itself motivate behavioural change. It must be accompanied by a will to change. References Reference bibliography%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Further reading
In detail, techniques involve: Highlighting ways in which the client avoids responsibility, such as by using "cannot" for situations where "will not" is the case, and generates defences against the assumption of responsibility. This also involves confronting a client with the client's own behaviours. A client that, for example, complains of loneliness is reminded of this—"Is it any wonder that you are lonely?"—whenever the client belittles other people. Highlighting responsibility avoidance even in the therapist-client relationship itself, by observing any transfer of responsibility from the client to the therapist ("Tell me what to do!") and behaviours of the client towards the therapist that reflect responsibility avoidance in the client's life. Encouraging the assumption of responsibility for how the client deals with adverse external circumstances, such as serious illness and the client assuming responsibility for behaviour towards doctors. Encouraging the conversion of guilt about lack of self-actualization into assuming more responsibility for that lack. Confronting low affect, and encouraging the client to have desires and wishes for change, which become the seeds for a will to change, the mere wish to change being the first step towards that. Ungluing decision making processes stuck through fear, encouraging empowerment and the exercise of choice. Assumption of responsibility does not by itself motivate behavioural change. It must be accompanied by a will to change. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 
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