ABSTRACT
While the outcome of SSI-CBT does depend, to some degree, on what you as the therapist bring to the table, as important, or some would say more important, is what the client brings to the table. While your skills as a therapist are important, and much of this book is about what you can do to maximize the chances that the client gets the most out of the process, the most skilful SSI-CBT therapists will fail if they don’t help their clients to bring the best of themselves to this therapy. Putting these points together, it is possible to argue that your most important skill in SSI-CBT is to help the client use the best of what they have during this process. In this chapter, then I will discuss what some of the most important client variables are that, if used, will maximize the chances that the client will get the most out of the process.
