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Some clients who come to you will have minimal resources. Others will have more than they realize. Even those with few are bound to have one or two that you as a person can admire. They may be difficult to recognize but you must find them in order to help the client recognize them. Something has motivated the client to come to you asking for help. It could be that he's sick and tired of being homeless, underemployed, dumped by his fourth girl friend in a year or his dog died cause he couldn't afford a vet. It could well be something more dramatic or frightening. When you discover the reason you'll know how to motivate him.

Building from one or two admirable traits or qualities he need not become perfect or suddenly earn a thousand pounds a year. The main goal can be getting a job, any job and attending every day. If you can motivate him to use one of his formerly "hidden" resources you can start him on a road to unearthing and using others. Your hope for him becomes his own hope for himself.

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Each client, regardless of how badly a lack of coping strategies has affected his current situation, will possess some attributes upon which you and he together can put into action a plan to improve upon and rebuild his life. Currently the client will be at a place in life that he wishes to elevate himself from. Without some hope he would not be here in your office asking for help. Whatever that impetus for seeking help was, identifying it will provide insight into how you can best interject his own resources into a plan for improvement.

It is true that some individuals have limited resources for coping with a life imbued with problems. It is your job as therapist to discover what they are. This will enable you to bring forth a sense of empowerment within the client. At the time he recognises positive qualities within himself, you have interjected his problematic life situation with the one thing he most needs. That one thing - is hope. You must discover attributes within your client that you can admire and thus help the client to discovery of the fact that he has admirable qualities. Then together you can build on those qualities until the client begins to utilise them to his own benefit.

NOTE: It is my intention to use "his" in a non-gender identifying manner simply to avoid extraneous words. I in no way elevate "he" over "she."

DAILY NEWS FROM HELL - FEB. 10, 2009

Not much to say - too busy working. Not a complaint - my cup runneth over. Big smile. Anyways, there are scary things going on that the political braniacs can explain far better than me. One comment - Kim Il Jong - ASL - 40 or 50 - male maniac - North Korea.

Go here for a real life horror movie plot.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020801729.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter

Please Hillary - Be a pit bull with him. I know you can do it.