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DIAGNOSTIC VARIABLES IN THE NON-SUCCESSFUL YOUTH-CLIENT PSYCHOTHERAPY INTERVENTIONS: A SUGGESTION FOR SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS

AMINU KAZEEM IBRAHIM

Abstract


The paper focused on possible variables that school psychologists need to look for in non-successful youth-clients’ psychotherapy interventions and why understanding and keying the variables may be of benefits to successful youth-clients’ psychotherapy processes. Before discussions on the conceptualized variables; efficacies of successful psychotherapy intervention outcomes were cited for referral to widen experiences in handling youth-clients’ psycho-personal-social needs and problems. These variables therefore include: negative therapeutic alliance, inappropriate identification of youth-clients’ personal characteristics and of the individual who is providing psychotherapy intervention, nature of youth-client needs and problems, inability to control dropout during therapy intervention processes and breach of psychotherapy professional boundaries. Recommended steps to overcome the variables include, continuous building of hope in youth-client, talk about the end of therapy and the possible gain to derive and the need for school psychologist to make conscious efforts towards objectivity by actively avoiding any interaction or discourse outside of therapeutic issues.

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