ABSTRACT
When your clients report improvement, it is important that you assess the basis for this change. Determine whether your clients have improved by changing their irrational beliefs, by changing the distorted nature of their inferences, by avoiding certain problematic activating events, by changing their environment, or by changing their behaviour without making corresponding changes in their thinking. When your clients report improved changes in their disturbed feelings and are now acting in a self-enhancing manner, determine if these changes are based on an underlying attitude change as this is a most desirable outcome. However, if your clients have effected changes by modifying aspects of their psychological functioning which do not involve belief change, then you need to reinforce those changes, but urge them non-dogmatically to take that extra step and work at bringing about changes in their underlying irrational beliefs.
