As mental health therapists, it is common to hear someone speak of New Year’s Resolutions or other big changes they hope to see in the New Year. The challenge is sometimes people are not fully bought into the anticipated changes, despite their discussions of wanting them to happen.

Learning to view nonverbal signals, such as eye-contact, can support the mental health therapist in best supporting their patient. That is, if there is consistency across the stated intentions in verbal and nonverbal communication, then typical mental health interventions usually work. However, when there is inconsistency, the mental health therapist can learn to assess these discrepancies in order to better support their patients.

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References:

Pew Research on New Year’s Resolutions:

Who makes New Year’s resolutions, and why? | Pew Research Center

Prochaska’s Transtheoretical Change Model:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK556005/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transtheoretical_model