When Inviting Clients to Self-Challenge,what Is the Best Approach

question 10

Multiple Choice

When inviting clients to self-challenge,what is the best approach?

• A)Provide a choice structure.
• B)Allow clients ultimate freedom in self-challenge.
• C)Refrain from disclosing your own self-challenges as a therapist to maintain boundaries.
• D)Suggest the decision path that you feel is most appropriate as the therapist.

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Definitions:

Awfulizing

The cognitive distortion involving the exaggeration of the negativity of an event or situation.

Always-and-never Thinking

A cognitive distortion characterized by seeing things in black-and-white categories without middle ground.

Negative Self-talk

The practice of making critical or detrimental comments to oneself, often undermining one’s own self-esteem or confidence.

Dysfunctional Beliefs

Negative beliefs that are unrealistic and can cause emotional distress, often part of cognitive distortions.