The thing I&#x27;ve found most frustrating about the framing and discussion around these things in a clinical setting (in my limited experience, with people who were probably not trained specifically in these concepts) is that it&#x27;s basically not allowed to say that your understanding doesn&#x27;t fit on the &quot;locus of control&quot; spectrum (for example, if you reject mind-body dualism, without which the assumed concepts of &quot;internal&quot; and &quot;external&quot; are somewhat absurd). According to the worksheet, I <i>must</i> have some kind of one-dimensional &quot;core belief&quot; about the power of self versus environment.  Some of the concepts and research around this seem promising, but in my experience as a patient&#x2F;client, the practice leaves a lot to be desired.<p>More broadly, I&#x27;ve been frustrated by a lot of the clinical psychology that focuses on highly stereotyped <i>beliefs</i>. Too much of it reads like just-so stories; Alice looks at Bob&#x27;s behavior and then treats her own speculations about Bob&#x27;s beliefs as though they&#x27;re actual observations.