Clients with the qualities below will not receive the benefits of a sound therapy practice:
- An uncooperative client 
- Does not complete the homework necessary to meet goals
-  Demands a treatment that is easy and quick

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A therapist who is impersonal and detached towards their clients or pressures them to partake in treatment are all qualities of a Therapist that results in a decreased or non-effective treatment. 

Poor Therapist Qualities

Curran, J., Parry, G. D., Hardy, G. E., Darling, J., Mason, A.-M., &amp; Chambers, E. (2019). How does therapy harm? A model of adverse process using task analysis in the meta-synthesis of service users' experience. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00347 

 How does therapy harm? A model of adverse process using task analysis in the meta-synthesis of service users' experience

Poor Client Qualities

- Who has malpractice violations
- Privacy violations
- Devalues the client 
- Blames the client 

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