ABSTRACT
The principle of overlearning states that if therapist go over an idea many times, even more frequently than is perhaps necessary, then therapists are more likely to retain what therapists are learning. Thus, encourage therapist's clients to challenge their core irrational belief repeatedly, either by using a single proven dispute or by using different types of disputes. Explain to them that the more they are able to do this, the more they will learn how to dispute their beliefs and the more they remember the outcome of their disputes. This principle of overlearning applies to therapists clients acting on their core rational beliefs. While therapist's clients may never completely believe in their core rational beliefs, given the tendency of human beings to return to well entrenched irrationalities, if they have overlearned how to dispute their core irrational beliefs they dispute them when they identify them than if they have not overlearned the disputing process.
