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A pioneer in the field of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) , Albert Ellis helped shape the landscape of psychotherapy with his development of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy . Starting his career as a psychoanalyst, Ellis later began introducing REBT approaches into his work with families, becoming one of the first psychotherapists to utilize cognitive behavioral interventions in the context of family therapy (Dattilio, Epstein, & Baucom, in Case studies in couple and family therapy: systemic & cognitive perspectives. The Guilford Press, New York, NY, pp. 1–36, 1998).
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Wachtler, B.E. (2019). REBT with Families. In: Dryden, W., Bernard, M. (eds) REBT with Diverse Client Problems and Populations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02723-0_14
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