ABSTRACT
This chapter examines about Looking at the Advantages and Disadvantages. This technique helps clients to tease out the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of adhering to a particular thought or engaging in specific behaviour procrastination. Through discussion of each advantage and disadvantage, clients can learn to revise their self-defeating thoughts and change their counterproductive behaviours. Wells states that 'an effort made to generate more disadvantages than advantages. When the disadvantages of maintaining a behaviour or attitude outweigh the advantages, the person more motivated to change'. The advantages and disadvantages of the above thought were written on the therapist's whiteboard. It has no further appeal to the client, but she wanted to learn to more resilient in coping with the vicissitudes of relationships. If some clients find the advantages/disadvantages technique unproductive, Hanna suggests intentions and counter intentions these are not viewed negatively as they show conflicting values and goals in a person's life.
