Role playing. There are both emotional and behavioral components in role playing. The therapist often interrupts to show clients what they are telling themselves to create their disturbances and what they can do to change their unhealthy feelings to healthy ones. Clients can rehearse certain behaviors to bring out what they feel in a situation. The focus is on working through the underlying irrational beliefs that are related to unpleasant feelings. For example, a woman may put off applying to a graduate school because of her fears of not being accepted. Just the thought of not being accepted to the school of her choice brings out her feelings of"being stupid." She role-plays an interview with the dean of graduate students, notes her anxiety and the specific beliefs leading to it and challenges her conviction that she absolutely must be accepted and that not gaining such acceptance means that she is a stupid and incompetent person.