Resistance as a Psychosocial Event: Psychosocial Resources and the ‘Fear of Hope’
April 22, 2026
Presented by: Ross Ellenhorn, PhD
CEO, Ellenhorn
From this session, you will be able to:
- Recognize that both resistance and a person’s capacity to accept and use help are dynamic and often influenced by what is occurring in their social world
- Discuss both the importance of hope in all motivation, and how fear of hope, especially in psychiatric patients, can disturb hope's purpose of moving us forward
- Determine the value of behavioral health models that serve people in the community in search of psychosocial resources
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Presented by: Ross Ellenhorn, PhD
CEO, Ellenhorn
From this session, you will be able to:
- Recognize that both resistance and a person’s capacity to accept and use help are dynamic and often influenced by what is occurring in their social world
- Discuss both the importance of hope in all motivation, and how fear of hope, especially in psychiatric patients, can disturb hope's purpose of moving us forward
- Determine the value of behavioral health models that serve people in the community in search of psychosocial resources
View the slide presentation »