Is the “Unmotivated” Client a Myth? Reconstructing Human Service Practices

IF 2.3 Q1 SOCIAL WORK

Journal of Progressive Human Services Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1080/10428232.2019.1583006

Dimity Peter

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Although there many factors outside of the human service context that influence client motivation, the label of an “unmotivated client” obscures the fact that in some significant measure the problem is not “unmotivated clients” but a missed opportunity for the social worker/counselor to engage the client. Assigning culpability for disengagement to the client, rather than the context, disinclines social workers to explore opportunities to support motivation. Reframing motivation as an attribute contingent on counseling practices provides opportunities to influence client motivation. This paper examines the implications for human service practices.

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“没有动力”的客户是一个神话吗?重建人类服务实践

虽然在人类服务环境之外有许多因素会影响来访者的动机，但“无动机来访者”的标签掩盖了这样一个事实，即在某些重要的措施上，问题不是“无动机来访者”，而是错失了社会工作者/咨询师与来访者接触的机会。把脱离工作的责任归咎于案主，而不是环境，会使社会工作者不愿意去探索支持动机的机会。将动机重新定义为咨询实践的一个属性，为影响客户动机提供了机会。本文探讨了对人类服务实践的影响。

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Journal of Progressive Human Services SOCIAL WORK-

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3.20

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： The only journal of its kind in the United States, the Journal of Progressive Human Services covers political, social, personal, and professional problems in human services from a progressive perspective. The journal stimulates debate about major social issues and contributes to the development of the analytical tools needed for building a caring society based on equality and justice. The journal"s contributors examine oppressed and vulnerable groups, struggles by workers and clients on the job and in the community, dilemmas of practice in conservative contexts, and strategies for ending racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, and discrimination of persons who are disabled and psychologically distressed.