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Court mandated clients are often not ready to take an active role in the therapeutic process and thus are not good candidates for therapy. Is this true? why or why not?

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Court mandated clients are often not ready to take an active role in the therapeutic process and thus are not good candidates for therapy, largely due to the fact that ...

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