Grief An Loss

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urate and not useful. The counselor then confronts the client with this truth and helps them move towards greater self - control. "Disputing" is the type of confronting the therapist uses to help people rethink those dysfunctional beliefs into more healthy and reasonable ones. In the example above, the dispute was whether the A caused C. It is important for the client to be confronted with that disputation of his perception. It is not uncommon for Ellis to call irrational beliefs "nuttiness" or "nonsense" or "silly" or "idiotic". Other disputations have to do with more complex or long standing personal beliefs that encumber the client. Statements like " I am no good at reading, I will never get ahead!" or " I am worthless no one will ever love me!" have no helpful, healthy basis for an individual's thinking and may therefore be disputed or put to the test of logic. Logic implies that if something is true then it can be supported by fact. If it cannot be supported by fact, then it is an irrational belief. Ellis is quick to interject with "who sa...