Challenging Patients

Question 1

What are seed resistances?

Answer 1

Things that are shown to you by the patient but may be covering for the underlying deeper issue, which is the core pain/process. When you can decipher the seed resistance, you can understand the patient much better.

Question 2

What are the 3 ways of dealing with seed resistances?

Answer 2

• content discussion (deal w/ actual question directly and remain focused on situation at hand)
• process discussion (comment/ask about underlying emotion or frustration)
• side-stepping (find a less threatening topic and go there at least temporarily if an interaction is too emotion-filled)

Question 3

What are the 3 golden rules of effective interviewing and alliance building?

Answer 3

• listen
• remember
• connect