ABSTRACT
Your clients will rarely, if ever, learn to surrender an irrational belief and gain deep conviction in an alternative rational belief after one session. They may understand a rational principle in one session, but in the very next session act as if they have not even heard of that principle. It is important, therefore, to realize that you will need to repeat your interventions before your clients begin to understand and act on the rational principles that you teach them. With some clients, it is important to repeat rational messages in exactly the same way. For some reason, hearing the same rational message put the same way repeatedly is an important ingredient for those clients’ understanding. With such clients, if you teach the same principle in different ways they will end up confused. So, ask your clients whether they learn best by having the same material repeatedly presented in the same way or whether they find it more useful to have the same thing taught in different ways. Your clients’ answers to this question are a useful pointer for the way you present rational principles, although it should not be regarded as an absolute indication.
