Clinical problem solving and therapeutic noncompliance: A heuristic for enhancing the clinician's generation of alternatives

Abstract

A social-cognitive model of rule-governed interpersonal request processes is adapted from sociolinguistic research and applied to the context of therapeutic noncompliance. It is predicted that the categories of the model will function as a superior heuristic aid to clinicians" generation of alternative reasons for noncompliance.A study using 38professional nurses as subjects provided strong support for the hypothesis.