ABSTRACT
This chapter involves the clients engaging other people in a dialogue where they put forward a rational belief and other people put forward an opposing strongly held irrational belief. The Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) technique is to give the clients the practice of defending their rational beliefs against the attacking arguments of those who are defending their own related irrational beliefs. It suggests that the clients listen to the words of popular songs with the purpose of identifying irrational beliefs in the lyrics and rewriting the words of these songs to express rational beliefs. The chapter provides the impetus for the client to dispute her own irrational beliefs since she sees that her father was in error concerning his rigid expectations of her. The clients help to dispute the irrationalities of significant others, particularly those who had a great influence on them in the past, is still a neglected area in REBT.
