ABSTRACT
The clients are beginning to make progress at overcoming their irrational beliefs about specific problems, it may be tempting to assume that since they have understood how to identify, challenge and change their irrational beliefs in one context, they will naturally be able to do so in other contexts. A therapist helps client to specify and seek out situations that involve the possibility of incurring the disapproval of these significant others and help them to challenge their approval-related irrational belief in these situations using cognitive disputing methods and imagery methods. As the client demonstrates an increasing ability to generalize their self-helping skills from one set of situations to others, therapists can then teach their general rules about the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) approach to self-help. The client can utilize their disputing skills and begin to strengthen their conviction in new specific and core rational beliefs by using a variety of cognitive, emotive and behavioural techniques.
