Setting Boundaries: Understanding Your Client’s Agenda
An agenda refers to the client’s underlying plan or program. Not just what he hopes to accomplish, but the things he’s determined not to do.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Setting Boundaries: The Initial Meeting
For some clients, particularly those with problems with rules and authority, their experience with boundaries is probably as important as anything that happens in counseling.
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Why Addicted People Manipulate
Takes a while to become really good at it, but most do. Addicts are not always great manipulators — that would be somebody so skilled you never realized you were being manipulated — but they’re bold, persistent, and creative when it comes to getting what they want
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The Professional as Target: Being Manipulated
As a professional, you have an agenda to fulfill. So too does the person in active addiction. Their agenda is very different, but they’re even more committed to it.
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Establishing Credibility
For some reason, the clients paid little attention to his advice. Most of the time, they treated him like a visitor from Mars.
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