Ready when you are: Answering your questions about psychotherapy

Psychotherapeutic treatment tends to have a high attrition rate ("premature termination") and there have been multiple efforts to help new patients, including those considering treatment, better understand the nature and expectations inherent to this process as a means to improve retention and outcome. These efforts are often grouped under the term "role induction." This script, from a DVD produced in 2010, was written to help prepare new psychotherapy clients for this new role in their lives-specifically, to educate prospective patients about the unique and sometimes surprising features of psychotherapy and to empower them to ask questions of their therapist about the process. This script presents a conversation that takes place among three patients in the waiting room of a psychotherapy clinic who speak about common fears, misconceptions, and uncertainties surrounding psychotherapy.