title: The concept of responsibility in psychotherapy.
abstract: Psychotherapists must be concerned with the manner in which they ascribe responsibility to patients. We tend to avoid conceptualizing this issue, however, and deal with it inconsistently. It is possible to develop a model for ascribing responsibility which can be used to facilitate the psychotherapeutic process.
mesh_terms: D002605:Character; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012660:Semantics; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012951:Socialization