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From: Carrie Vitko
Date: 11 Oct 2010
Time: 23:30:34 -0500
Remote Name: 70.15.92.12
Hi Jayme - Thanks much for your posting and question. Most of my clients have bought into co-planning with relative ease to date. But I did work with a teen a few years back who wasn't an immediate fan. At the outset, I simply provided the topics/goals/projects and encouraged him to select and prioritize, which worked 'OK,' but in retrospect I don't think he had enough input that way to really have that sincere ownership of the direction of therapy. If I had it to do all over again, I might use his reluctance to ask some 'challenging' (but not confrontational) questions about what he really wanted to get out of therapy in the long run. Or I might have asked him to journal RE: some fairly open-ended questions/prompts RE: his life experience as a PWS, and then used the content of his entries as the basis for some discussions RE: goals that were relevant to where he'd been and where he wanted to go. Let me know if this makes sense or if I can be of further assistance. Thanks again - Carrie V.