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Your client's reactions to CPS Syndrome

From: Cortney Newman, CMU Student
Date: 10/21/03
Time: 4:04:49 PM
Remote Name: 141.209.28.219

Comments

Hi Dr. Cooper-

Reading your article reminded me of a very similar situation which I just heard about yesterday. I am enrolled in a fluency class right now, and one of our undergraduate students is a Person Who Stutters (PWS). He shared with our class a very similar story. It makes me sick to think that PWS attend these programs thinking they will be cured, when they (many of them anyway) actually end up being emotional wrecks. I'm sure it would especially be hard to be fluent for a few weeks and think you're on top of the world, and then to just lose it. They seem to be worse off than they had been before attending the program. The feeling of failure these people feel is horrible. My question refers to the CPS Syndrome you described. It sounds great to me, as well as probably anyone who has experienced, or even witnessed, what Todd has. I'm wondering, however, how your patients react to this. I'm sure that some patients come to you thinking there is going to be a magical cure, and those programs out there such as the one Todd experienced don't seem to help decrease this thought. Do your patients often search elsewhere for answers that they would rather hear of, or do most agree with you and willingly participate in therapy?


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