I work with an assertive community treatment program. I am a peer specialist. I am having trouble with the consept of a therapist relating to a patient who has been court instructed to get therapy.
This client is angry and has seizures. I don't have a problem with working with this patient nor did her previous therapist. She now has a new therapist that feels that working with this client when she is in "angry mode" is not what should be done. That the client should be dropped as a client or at least left to fend for herself since the client states that nothing is ever done for her.
I, personally, have a problem with this theory as, having had abandonment issues in the past, I didn't find that having more people abandon me helped me through all this. This client has also felt abandoned in the past and I feel that using the term "tough love" to justify abandonment is not something that can be helpful to the client.
I do realize that I am not as learned as a therapist, but can't help putting myself in the place of the client and wondering why and how this would help.
If there is someone that can explain the theory behind this and could help me make sense of this ... I would appriciate an answer.
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