@article{ref1,
title="Patients' performance anxiety and related aspects as factors in resistance to change",
journal="Australasian psychiatry",
year="2010",
author="Restifo, Sam",
volume="18",
number="3",
pages="226-229",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this paper is to touch on some aspects of patients' potentially ambivalent attitude toward change in the early stages of treatment. METHOD: A de-identified case study is used as a springboard for discussing these issues. CONCLUSION: A range of factors can affect a person's confidence in, commitment to, and results from their treatment. Some of these include: the patient feeling that the nature of their problem--including any ambivalence to change--has been adequately understood; the clinician expressing reassurance or encouragement only after due consideration; the clinician and patient discussing their respective expectations at the outset so as to minimize any subsequent disenchantment; and recognizing the possible presence of a patient's performance anxiety around fearing he or she may fail to respond to treatment and disappoint not only him- or herself but others as well.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1039-8562",
doi="10.3109/10398560903473678",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10398560903473678"
}