A client holds an absolute belief that “disabled people can’t work” and refuses job exploration despite functional capacity for selected roles. Which individual counseling technique application fits best?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Absolute beliefs are like locked doors with no windows—“disabled people can’t work” shuts the whole hallway. REBT-style disputing knocks on that rigid rule, checks the evidence, and builds truer vocational self-talk. Agreement without challenge leaves the lock in place.
Full Explanation
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy techniques dispute irrational absolute beliefs that block adaptive action. In rehabilitation counseling, challenging internalized disability myths can reduce cognitive barriers to vocational exploration when the belief is rigid and counterfactual. Agreeing with the myth or avoiding cognitive work maintains the barrier; cognitive-behavioral/REBT approaches are legitimate individual counseling tools in this domain.