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Help Clients Take Responsibility: Podcast 083

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This podcast is the narrated version of my article “It’s not my fault!”.

Blaming others for everything removes your client’s sense of control. Here are three ways to gently help them see their own influence.

In this episode I talk about:

  • Who’s responsible!
  • Swallowing the poison of blame
  • Therapeutic blind alleys
  • Why always blaming others is bad for us
  • Encourage your clients to look for the cause, not just any cause
  • Communicate to your client they can only grow through personal feedback
  • Encourage admitting of mistakes
  • My off-the-cuff analogy
  • Shock therapy
  • Forget blame and focus on where to go from here
  • No more blame game

Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below:

References/Notes:

  1. https://www.biopsychiatry.com/misc/speakwell.html

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Psychology is my passion. I've been a psychotherapist trainer since 1998, specializing in brief, solution focused approaches. I now teach practitioners all over the world via our online courses.

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