Enabling

This article is about enabling in its counseling or psychological sense. For enabling in an empowerment sense, see Empowerment. For use of term in Graphical user interfaces, see GUI widget. For other uses, see Enabling (disambiguation).

In psychotherapy and mental health, enabling is the encouragement of some behaviour, especially if said behaviour is either particularly positive or dysfunctional.[1]

  1. ^ elinewberger.com Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine From the page on 'enabling', by Eli H. Newberger, M.D., referenced by that web page to The Men They Will Become ch.18 "Enabling".