ABSTRACT
Recently, a great deal has been presented and written (e.g., Stanton & Todd, 1981; Todd, 1984) on treating the difficult family/client. Many of the problems revolve around lack of compliance and/or motivation to change. Families may appeal for sessions with one or more members missing; homework assignments may go uncompleted with vague or superficial explanations for the lack of execution; clients may agree to implement directives only to later report that they "forgot" or met with a trivial impediment. The following technique was developed for use with difficult cases and should be employed with caution.
