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So for example, if I, I might work with somebody who comes in and they have a lot of self-critical thinking, right? And so I might say, "Well, one of my target behaviors is, uh, self-critical self-talk," right? I'm gonna be looking out for that, and I wanna help move them towards a behavior, shape them towards more self-compassionate self-talk.

Now, every therapist does that in, in some way, right? I could also have, um, a target that's more specific to if I'm working with OCD, you know, again, where I'm gonna be targeting obsessions and compulsions, and I'm gonna do ERP for that.

But let's say somebody is trying to increase insight and they want someone's insight to improve, right? Like, well, what would that look like? How do you know they're, they're more insightful? So you wanna start to identify what it is that you're trying to, to shape, to target, and be really specific about that from the get-go, and we wanna start relatively small with, like, three target behaviors.

This sounds like it has the potential to be very rigid.