Psychotherapeutic treatment tends to have a high attrition rate (“premature termination”) and there have been multiple efforts to help new patients, including those considering treatment, better understand the nature and expectations inherent to t...
Psychotherapeutic treatment tends to have a high attrition rate (“premature termination”) and there have been multiple efforts to help new patients, including those considering treatment, better understand the nature and expectations inherent to this process as a means to improve retention and outcome. These efforts are often grouped under the term “role induction.” This script, from a DVD produced in 2010, was written to help prepare new psychotherapy clients for this new role in their lives—specifically, to educate prospective patients about the unique and sometimes surprising features of psychotherapy and to empower them to ask questions of their therapist about the process. This script presents a conversation that takes place among three patients in the waiting room of a psychotherapy clinic who speak about common fears, misconceptions, and uncertainties surrounding psychotherapy.