Category:Precontemplation

No near-term consideration of change of the particular target behavior; problem behavior seen as having more pros than cons.

Precontemplators usually show up in therapy because of pressures from others… spouses, employers, parents, and courts… Resist change. When their problem comes up, they change the topic of conversation. They place responsibility for their problems on factors such as genetic makeup, addition, family, society, destiny, the police, etc. They feel the situation is HOPELESS.

“It isn’t that we cannot see the solution. It’s that we cannot see the problem.”