Overcoming client ambivalence

[Social Work PD]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to help someone overcome their resistance/ambivalence for treatment?  I know motivational interviewing, but what do you do when the person will only say what he/she thinks you want to hear, as if they have no thoughts of their own?  How do you encourage someone to attend treatment when they are frequently missing.  Obviously you eventually discharge the person from treatment, but then the person becomes incredibly distressed and literally begs to come back to treatment.  Their behavior says they don't want to be in treatment when treatment is available, but when the treatment is no longer available, suddenly, they desperately need it and want back in. 

[docjp]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to help someone overcome their resistance/ambivalence for treatment?

In his book, Client-Centered Therapy, Carl Rogers, wrote that he discovered much to his surprise, that it was himself that was preventing a client from opening up in therapy.  Very few reading his book "saw" this revelation... because their MINDs prevented them [due to Scotoma] from perceiving this threatening revelation.

Although hardly something the highly educated and fully qualified therapist would need to read.... the fact is, it is the http://about-psychology.com/MIND.html of the therapist that communicates to the MINDs of clients... the therapist's own fear of the fear they "need" to discover.  Quite unknown to the therapist is the fact that it is the therapist who is unknowingly exacerbating the fears the client needs to discover and eliminate.

Such is the result of training in America today.

Peace