Not only may initial psychiatric diagnoses not always be accurate, being labeled with a diagnosis that may have different meaning to different people is understandably not always enthusiastically embraced! It is simply not true that a client must accept their diagnostic label in order to get better, especially if the client disagrees with the diagnosis. Rather, the focus should remain on the “disagreement” or discrepancy between the client’s goals and the unhelpful behaviors that are posing as obstacles to achieving those goals (and not on disagreement between the client and practitioner.)