How Do You Teach Your Clients to Be More Committed to Treatment?

Roxanne Jones: I appreciate how you tie together the idea of the behavioral terms in your documentation but how eliciting that with a client can also serve to help involve them in treatment. She says research shows that when we have an explicit treatment plan that's in language that the client can understand, they are more likely to be part of it. Jones: It actually makes clinical sense to use behavioral language. Even cognitive distortions are behaviors. Patterns of thinking are behaviors. And even little changes feel like gold stars.