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Comprehensive Cognitive Disputing in RET

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Using Rational-Emotive Therapy Effectively

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Abstract

Disputing irrational beliefs has always been at the heart of RET. However, my 13 years’ experience in teaching therapists to do RET has revealed that disputing is the art of the science and the hardest thing about RET to teach. Most new therapists learn how to identify the activating event, the emotional consequences, and then the irrational belief. Once the client reveals his or her irrational belief, the therapist asks, “Where’s the evidence?” The client looks confused and says, “I guess there is none.” And the therapist assumes that the client has “got it” and responds, “What other problem would you like to discuss?” As therapists develop more experience, they spend more time disputing. They somehow develop a guide to all of the possible disputes that are available to use with a specific type of problem or a specific irrational belief.

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  1. Department of Psychology, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, 11432, USA

    Raymond DiGiuseppe

  2. Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy, New York, New York, 45 East 65th Street, 10021, USA

    Raymond DiGiuseppe

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    Michael E. Bernard

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DiGiuseppe, R. (1991). Comprehensive Cognitive Disputing in RET. In: Bernard, M.E. (eds) Using Rational-Emotive Therapy Effectively. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0641-0_7

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