How to Help Clients Make Friends

Friendships have been declining for the past 30 years, resulting in severe mental and physical health consequences. However, multiple barriers prevent individuals from initiating and maintaining connections. This paper highlights the individual and societal-level challenges that limit social connect...

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Autores principales: Thompson, Sophia, Deaner, Kaitlyn, Franco, Marisa G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42843-023-00085-w
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description Friendships have been declining for the past 30 years, resulting in severe mental and physical health consequences. However, multiple barriers prevent individuals from initiating and maintaining connections. This paper highlights the individual and societal-level challenges that limit social connection including fear of rejection, insecure attachment style, structural racism, and increased use of technology. To help clients make friends, we recommend clinicians assess loneliness, social competency, and attachment style; administer cognitive behavioral or behavioral activation therapies; and guide clients to assume others like them and be self-compassionate.
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spelling pubmed-102370732023-06-06 How to Help Clients Make Friends Thompson, Sophia Deaner, Kaitlyn Franco, Marisa G. J Health Serv Psychol Article Friendships have been declining for the past 30 years, resulting in severe mental and physical health consequences. However, multiple barriers prevent individuals from initiating and maintaining connections. This paper highlights the individual and societal-level challenges that limit social connection including fear of rejection, insecure attachment style, structural racism, and increased use of technology. To help clients make friends, we recommend clinicians assess loneliness, social competency, and attachment style; administer cognitive behavioral or behavioral activation therapies; and guide clients to assume others like them and be self-compassionate. Springer International Publishing 2023-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10237073/ /pubmed/37360221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42843-023-00085-w Text en © National Register of Health Service Psychologists 2023. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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