Abstract:
This study is a compilation of literature that prepared with the concern of creating a
Turkish resource that provides preliminary information to counselors about client
resistance in individual counseling. In Turkey, resistance or overcoming resistancerelated
resources are limited with group counseling, reveals importance of this work.
Under the scope of the research, articles and books that can be accessed as full text
was examined by searching for keywords such as “client resistance”, “resistance in
counseling”. The specific principles of each counseling approach and the behaviors of
client have waited for being have been different from each other, have brought a
diversity about what resistant behavior is. In classification that made in order to
combine this diversity and present the common forms of resistance to readers,
resistant behaviors are categorized six different groups that named speech resistance,
confidentiality resistance, participation/responsibility resistance, relational
resistance, resistance to solution and resistance to rules. The client behaviors included
in this classification is a barrier against changing commonly and unless overcome,
counseling process will not be able to reach aim.
