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Is it homework to ask patient to test their irrational beliefs. I.e. I am going to be rejected if I ask Sarah to go to a movie.
Is it home work to ask a patient to write down what they felt about the previous session?
What is and isn't probably differs from person to person.
I know I find it very difficult to do the thought records of CBT and can never manage to, but I can and have written down what I want from therapy and I have done what you suggested, to some extent and learned that what I wanted to change about myself is my behavior which, as hard as it may be, is something I can do.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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