ABSTRACT
The effective practice of REBT is done within the context of a developing productive therapeutic alliance. One of the major components of the alliance concerns your client's goals for change. One of the most powerful motivators for encouraging people clients to change their irrational beliefs is the extent to which their new rational beliefs help them to achieve their goals. Salesmen have known for many years that potential customers will not buy a product that they think will not help them realize an important goal. We believe this is the same with psychotherapy. Therefore, keep your client's goals for change clearly at the front of their mind while disputing. They can determine the power of pragmatic disputes by only using logical and empirical disputes during a disputing sequence. Then add pragmatic disputes at the end of this sequence by bringing the client's goals into the discussion to see what difference pragmatic disputing makes.
