Read the Following Statement from Your Client: I Ate Ice

question 35

Multiple Choice

Read the following statement from your client: I ate ice cream last night after dinner. I'm so bad! You want to help your client change their patterns of thinking. What could you say?

• A) Possibly your thoughts may be hampering your progress to make behavior changes. What is something positive you could say to yourself the next time you eat ice cream?
• B) Well, eating ice cream isn't bad. How much did you eat? Maybe next time don't eat so much.
• C) You aren't bad. The ice cream is bad. Do you want to set some goals so this doesn't happen again? Do you want to try eating fruit after dinner?
• D) Why did you buy the ice cream?
• E) Besides bad, how does that make you feel?

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