ABSTRACT
While there is no precise or right time to initiate disputing strategies there are, however, important tasks to accomplish before deciding when to use these strategies. Thus, before you can effectively dispute your clients’ irrational beliefs, you need to:
• identify your clients’ target problem • assess a specific example of that problem using the ABCs of REBT • help your clients to see the relationship between their irrational
beliefs and their disturbed emotions and self-defeating behaviour at C
• elicit your clients’ understanding that they can best achieve their therapeutic goals by disputing their irrational beliefs (Dryden and Neenan 2004a).
