Der Sinn Pessimistischer Sätze

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Scientific Meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis-Transference: The Hardest Part

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis -     

Les Principes Philosophiques Du Christianisme

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Einzelbeiträge zur Frage nach dem phylogenetischen Parallelismus auf dem Gebiet der Zahl- und Raumentwicklung bei Kindern und Primitiven

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The Nature of Client Agency Prior to Therapy: A Qualitative Study on Clients’ Narratives

Client agency is considered a crucial contributor to good treatment outcome. Recent studies, however, differ strongly in how they conceptualise and investigate agency. The current study explores the nature of client agency in ten clients’ pre-treatment interviews. Applying Consensual Qualitative Research, we constructed three overarching categories, subdivided into 14 sub-categories capturing both between- and within-person differences in agency before therapy. We found that all participants oscillated between the experience of a lack of grip on problems on the one hand and noticing their involvement in the problem and taking action on the other. These results present a dynamic conceptualisation of client agency. This allows us to ask pertinent questions for both future research and clinical practice.