A 26-year-old Vietnamese female has expressed an interest in working on improving her relationships with people in her life. The client has informed the social worker that she can only meet at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday. For the past two weeks she has come at 1:15 p.m. and today she did not attend at all.
a) What issue(s) would you address?
Help lateness.
Does she really want to be in counseling?
What seems to be getting in the way of her attending the counseling sessions?
b) Confrontational response:
I’m concern that you have either been late for our sessions or not coming al all. You asked to meet on Wednesday and you are not following through. I wonder if you are truly committed to this process.