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14 Apr 2026 — 9 min read

When Helping Becomes Hindering:

The question this article explores is straightforward, even if the answer is uncomfortable: what if some of what we do in therapy, particularly before we have learned to attend carefully to behavioral function, inadvertently teaches clients to escape rather than engage?
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