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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 17 Oct 2012
Time: 09:38:16 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121
Hi Bridget, Thank you so much for the kind words. It seems as though you reached the same conclusion as I did regarding making sense of a client's past before launching into a new treatment. It just makes sense. You asked about some of the reasons clients have been disappointed or pessimistic. I wish I had kept a list somewhere that I could not refer to and pull out some good examples. But here are a few that come to mind. The clinician never had a talk with the parent about why she chose to teach Cooper's FIGs, and the child did not know either. The clinician had the client move his finger back and forth as he spoke and then gradually made the movements smaller and smaller until he was asked to do so in his front pocket. Past therapy involved staring at a circle on the clinic room wall while speaking. The client assumed that if he/she did what the clinician asked, his/her stuttering would go away. The clinician told the client that he/she did not stutter (since there were no syllables stuttered in the first session). There are a few. Good luck in your future work. Ken