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From: Dale Williams
Date: 05 Oct 2011
Time: 07:38:41 -0500
Remote Name: 131.91.248.210
This is a really good question Lindsey. I'm always looking for new ideas myself. Some of the things that have worked in the past: playing music during sessions, making tasks competitive, using sports or fashion magazines as stimuli, & calling athletes on the phone (I work with a lot of sports-crazed teens). One young woman I worked with just needed someone to listen to her, so I did a lot of that before she got motivated. Having said all that, however, your point about internal motivation still holds. Sometimes a kid isn't ready for therapy & all these efforts fail.