Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling ProcessAuthor(s): Arthur J. Clark\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc, United States\nImprint: SAGE Publications Inc\nISBN-13: 9780761906612, 978-0761906612\nSynopsis\nWhat causes clients in therapy to resist change? What mechanisms and devices do they use to defend against therapeutic progress? How can a therapist identify and work with such defenses in their clients? Understanding defense mechanisms is essential to understanding clients, managing resistance, clarifying conflicted behavior, and engendering more adaptive functioning. In Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process, author Arthur J. Clark discusses various specific defense mechanisms that arise in the course of working with a client in counseling. He presents each mechanisms theoretical origins, psychopathology, and definitionsand then the methods (organized according to the three-stage model of the counseling process) for \""processing\"" it through discrete stages.