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WORKING THROUGH RESISTANCE. Slides for Chapter 7 of text, PS375, Kaplan University Tristram Jones, PhD. Yes, Addiction is like a LOVER!. ONLY WITH ALITTLE BIT OF A TWIST!. So a lot of the same neurosis apply! Like Freud’s Big Ten.
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WORKING THROUGH RESISTANCE Slides for Chapter 7 of text, PS375, Kaplan University Tristram Jones, PhD.
Yes, Addiction is like a LOVER! • ONLY WITH ALITTLE BIT OF A TWIST!
So a lot of the same neurosis apply! Like Freud’s Big Ten • Denialarguing against an anxiety provoking stimuli by stating it doesn't • Displacementtaking out impulses on a less threatening target • Intellectualizationavoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects • Projectionplacing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else • Rationalizationsupplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason that you were fired. • Reaction formationtaking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety • Regressionreturning to a previous stage of development: sitting in a corner and crying • Repressionpulling into the unconscious forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and anxiety • Sublimationacting out unacceptable impulses in a socially acceptable ways • Suppressionpushing into the unconscious things that causes you anxiety
THERE IS A CLASSIC METHOD FOR BREAKING THROUGH RESISTANCE IN AOD SUFFERERS!
So what works better? Well, WORKING with resistance is a better idea! BUT DO MILLER & ROLLNICK HAVE THE ANSWER???
What do Miller & Rollnick suggest? • THEY DENY THAT ADDICTS • ARE IN DENIAL! • They call refusing to accept that there • is a problem is simply a “normal • reaction!” They also say the behavior • of the therapist creates the resistance in in clients! This becomes a vicious • cycle in which confrontation=resist- • ance= more confrontation, etc!
HERE ARE THE STAGES OF CHANGE THAT MILLER & ROLLNICK PREFER: PRECONTEMPLATION STAGE
CONTEMPLATION STAGE • Subject vacillates between accepting help and rejecting it!
DETERMINATION STAGE • Subject may be open to accepting help if properly THERAPIZED!
ACTION STAGE • Subject may initiate action by herself—go on the wagon. This will be stressful without help!
RELAPSE STAGE • Subject may now wish to discuss difficulties of maintaining sobriety with some help!
AVOID TRAPS!!! • The confrontation trap • The question/answer trap • The labeling trap ________________________________________ Instead: Motivational Interviewing advocates: • Problem recognition • Statements of concern • Intention to act cognitive/affective/behavioral
And use modifications of Rogerian therapy! (really?!) • REFLECTION and • AMPLIFICATION • DOUBLE-SIDED • SHIFTING FOCUS • THE TWIST • REFRAMING • (ALL TYPES OF • REFLECTION)
And PARADOX…which is essentially GESTALT, but who really cares? VELLL—I CARE, DOTZ VUN PERSON WHO GIFFS A GOOT DAMN!!! JA!
POP QUIZ TIME! • ALL RIGHT, • CHILDREN! IF • YOU HAVE BEEN BEEN PAYING CLOSE • ATTENTION, TELL TELL ME WHAT TREAT- • MENT MILLER & AND R ROLLNICK • RECOMMEND!!! Well?