Clients self-efficacy

Self-efficacy. Client mastery that shows both competence and confidence to succeed at reaching a goal or completing a task successfully. 

For whatever reason, the client may not successfully negotiate the high-risk situation in a way that averts the risk. Unsuccessful coping may cause two unfortunate events to occur. The first is a reduction in her or his self-efficacy to successfully cope with the situation without drug use. As you may remember, self-efficacy involves the sense of mastery of a situation that results from competence and confidence. Client competence and confidence can take a beating when a high-risk situation is not handled effectively. 

Restructuring, or positive labelling of experiences and utterances of the client, is used to provide a different, more positive, meaning for the client s experiences, behaviour or feelings. If clients have predominantly negative views of their experiences, behaviours or feelings, then the use of restructuring by the therapist creates a more positive interpretation for them. The therapist helps the client to construe events more positively—an important process in the development of self-esteem and self-efficacy expectations. 

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