ABSTRACT
Challenging preferred views of mandated clients is especially problematic. Generating the type of resistance that inhibits cooperation is bad enough. With mandated clients, challenging preferred views may also generate the type of resistance that renders therapists practically helpless: the situation where the mandated client agrees with every observation or suggestion that we make. When this happens, there is no way to know for sure what the client is really thinking, and our chances of effecting real change are slim.
