Client Articulated Avoidance Goals in the Therapy Context.

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Motivation and the Goal Theory of Current Concerns (2011, background): “For example, avoiding illness can be reframed as maintaining health; avoiding arguments with one’s spouse can be reframed as improving one’s marital relationship (see also Cox & Klinger, Chapter 11, this volume; Elliot & Church, 2002; Willutzki & Koban, Chapter 18, this volume).”
Character strengths and well-being among volunteers and employees: Toward an integrative model (2010, background): “…distinctions between an approach focused (looking for opportunities to bring about desired outcomes) – which is associated with well-being – and being avoidance focused (being wary to try to avoid undesired outcomes) – which is associated with psychological distress (e.g., Elliot & Church, 2002).”
The disclosure processes model: Understanding disclosure decision-making and post-disclosure outcomes among people living with a concealable stigmatized identity (2010, unknown): “In therapeutic settings, clients’ pursuit of avoidance- (vs. approach-) oriented goals has been shown to be related to smaller increases in subjective well-being at the end of therapy (Elliot & Church, 2002).”