| Abstract: | Discusses the effect on the patient and therapeutic process of various ways of phrasing comments—an important and overlooked aspect of how change can be facilitated or impeded. Emphasis is placed on ways of conveying one's message to help the patient hear and confront what is being said in a productive way, in contrast to presenting the same message and arousing resistance and anxiety and lowering the patient's self-esteem. (6 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
