als. The therapist provides skills and designs behavioral experiments to serve as corrective experiences. In severe cases, the therapist may act more directive to help the patient organize thoughts. The patient assumes the responsibility for observing and monitoring thoughts and images, for completing homework assignments, and for providing feedback regarding treatment (Freedman, Simon, Beutler, & Arkowitz, 1989).
Cognitive therapy is described as collaborative empiricism. The therapist works with the client to help him recognize cognitions, test the validity of the thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions that are considered important, and to make desired changes in cognition and behavior. The process of guided discovery rather than direct confrontation, facilitates the process, maximizes the client's involvement, and minimizes the client's feeling that the therapist is attempting to impose ideas on the client. Guided discovery provides the client with a method to understand and solve his own problems, which can be used to deal with future situations (Freeman, Pretzer, Fleming, & Simon, 1990).
The therapist as a consultant, provides ideas for experimentation. As a diagnostician, he gathers data and integrates the data to determine what is best for the current situation. As an educa
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