Role playing is another component therapist use to help clients see certain behaviors, during therapy they rehearse certain behaviors and can work through their irrational feelings and find their underlying beliefs and meanings they have given them. Finally, another specific application is encouraging the client to take risk to disprove and overcome fears. This can be as simple as explaing to the client, no one not even them can be certain about the outcome and it is worth taking a chance. In most cases individuals avoid situations they fear, the therapist would encourage the client to deliberatly and plan the situations, they will help the client put into practice their coping skills and other cognitive skills they are learning. Overall Impression/Application First the bad, REBT is narrow in it’s scope, in addition it has not clarified what mechanisms should be involved with various mental disorders. It has been viewed as harsh or insensitive. REBT has sometimes been accussed of being unethical, due to it’s cognitive techniques. It’s stregnths far outweight it’s weaknessess. REBT is popular with therapist and clients. Most clients understand their thoughts and feelings have an impact on their decisions, so REBT makes “common sense” to them. Clients …show more content…
My expereince with clients, most people get stuck in certain thinking patterns. Theres patterns can play like a broken record, and unless they are shown or taught different, they tend to repeat the pattern. Once, the negative patteren is repeated they begin to believe it is impossible to change. REBT teaches clients to be flexible, but realistic. While, working on long term goals, they are givne homework and are able to reflect on short term positive changes resulting from how they have reframed situations or changed their outlook on certain events. Clients learn to break vicious cyles which have gravley impacted their