Discussion:
Counseling with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Some clients can be quite challenging no matter what theory you think might work optimally. Now considering the premises of the CBT theory, how would you approach the following case?
Trying to help a client sort out distorted thinking can be a straight forward process when the client is open and willing to change their thinking, but sometimes it doesn't always work the way you had hoped. How would you work with an elderly client who wanted to ramble on his racist viewpoints in every therapeutic encounter? You are younger, so your opinion doesn't matter and he says some quite offensive things. He refuses to entertain any of the rational beliefs that others in society ascribe to. He is there due to others' insistence and he thinks there is nothing wrong with him at all. He has also gone so far as to disown his own daughter, once she adopted an African American child at birth. He now hates her and a large part of what he vents about is her betrayal.
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