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The Client's Theory of Change: Consulting the Client in the Integrative Process

Journal of Psychotherapy Integration

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This article casts a critical eye upon the integration literature and asserts that, as in psychotherapy in general, the client has been woefully left out of the therapeutic process. An alternative that privileges the client's voice as the source of wisdom and solution is presented. It is proposed that conducting therapy within the context of the client's own theory of change offers ways of integrating multiple therapy perspectives. An argument is made for not only recasting the client as the star of the drama of therapy, but also giving the heroic client directorial control of the action as it unfolds.

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Duncan, B.L., Miller, S.D. The Client's Theory of Change: Consulting the Client in the Integrative Process. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration 10, 169–187 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009448200244

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