The session, 8: Encouraging the client to apply learning inside and outside the session

In this chapter, the author discussed the importance of the client applying their learning both inside and outside the session. In two-chair dialogue, the client switches between chairs in communicating with another person – the client plays both parts – or with another part of themselves. In a sense, the most critical part of the SSI-CBT process is one over which the people, as a therapist, have no control. From the perspective of CBT based on mindfulness and acceptance principles, the emphasis will be on helping the client act in value-based ways while acknowledging troublesome cognition and emotion without engaging with them or attempting to eliminate them.