A counselor tries to use sports' metaphors with her clients in order to help them gain insight into their behavior.Certain clients lack the background knowledge about sports to understand her messages,so they fail to demonstrate any increased understanding about themselves or their problems.This primarily describes a failure of

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This describes a failure of accommodation, which is the process of adjusting one's schemas or mental structures to incorporate new information. The clients in question do not have the necessary background knowledge to understand the sports metaphors being used by the counselor, and as a result, they cannot integrate this information into their existing schemas in a meaningful way.

A Counselor Tries to Use Sports' Metaphors with Her Clients