Contributed by David Burns
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VIDEO: David Burns on Overcoming Resistance
Exploring Why Clients Might Not Want to Change
Do you have a client who you can't seem to help, no matter what techniques you try? In this brief video, master clinician David Burns—one of the developers of CBT and an expert in treating depression and anxiety—explains why we shouldn't automatically assume that clients actually want to change the problems they initially present in treatment. Read More
When Helping Doesn't Help
Why Some Clients May Not Want to Change
Rather than just commiserating with clients’ misery, most therapists want to engage in more active forms of helping. So we try to persuade clients compassionately, gently, patiently—to make use of the various tools and techniques we know will work, if only they’d just try them. For some, this results in a quick recovery. But what about the clients who seem impervious to all our heartfelt efforts? Read More
VIDEO: The Key to Dramatically Accelerating Anxiety Treatment
Being Anxious Doesn’t Mean You’re Anxious to Change
Does Your Depressed Client Even Want to Change?
David Burns on Using Paradoxical Agenda Setting
VIDEO: Desiring Change, but Clinging to the Familiar
David Burns on Turning Resistance into the Voice of Change
Living With The Devil We Know
We May be Anxious, but Not to Change
David Burns
David D. Burns, MD, is an emeritus adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His best-selling books, Feeling Good and the Feeling Good Handbook, have sold over five million copies worldwide. Although he was a pioneer in the development of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), he also created a more powerful approach called TEAM-CBT.
More than 50,000 therapists have attended his training programs over the past 35 years. His website, www.feelinggood.com, offers many free resources for therapists and clients alike, including his tremendously popular Feeling Good Podcasts which draw more than 50,000 downloads per month.