11. Patience is Needed to Stay Clinically Focused

Two factors influenced the dynamic of this financial intervention: the therapist was familiar with the client and her ability to alienate people and sink into depression and inaction (a revolving door of maladaptive behavior.) The client had been trying to stabilize her life with marginal success; yet, because she was trying to do something, it was clinically imperative to prevent a jail term with the consequent stoppage of medication, which would only be a setback and solidify the client and the family into predictable patterns of immovability and antagnonism.