Your Client Tells You That He Believes in Never Hitting

Multiple Choice

Your client tells you that he believes in never hitting children, and then he reveals that he periodically loses control and slaps his daughter. You say to him, "Tell me how you make sense of this behavior as it seems it is contrary to what you believe." This is an example of what kind of confrontation?

A) Higher level empathy
B) Use of satire and irony
C) "You/but" statements
D) Asking the client to justify the discrepancy
E) Reframing