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the client’s view of the problems. However, normalization does not mean that criminal acts are honored,
approved, or condoned as being normal. Rather, normalization attempts to reframe client problem situations as
being understood as human. The normalization statement also contains the counselor’s implicit acceptance of
the client. It recalls Rogers’s sense of respect for the client and the client situation. In conducting psychotherapy
with people who have committed criminal acts, normalization occurs when the therapist accepts the ease with
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