Clinical Applications of Rational-Emotive Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. What Is Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)?

   • Albert Ellis, Michael E. Bernard

   Pages 1-30

3. Love and Its Problems

   • Albert Ellis

   Pages 31-53

4. Marriage

   • Raymond A. DiGiuseppe, Cynthia Zeeve

   Pages 55-80

5. Divorce and Separation

   • Michael S. Broder

   Pages 81-99

6. Women

   • Janet L. Wolfe

   Pages 101-127

7. Rational Sexuality

   • Susan R. Walen

   Pages 129-151

8. The Psychology of Homosexuality

   • Ian M. Campbell

   Pages 153-180

9. Healthy Living

   • Gary Witkin

   Pages 181-207

10. RET and Substance Abuse

    • Vincent Greenwood

    Pages 209-235

11. Religion and RET

    • Paul A. Hauck

    Pages 237-255

12. Student Burnout

    • William J. Knaus

    Pages 257-276

13. A Rational-Emotive Mental Training Program for Professional Athletes

    • Michael E. Bernard

    Pages 277-309

14. RET and Some Mid-Life Problems

    • Rose Oliver

    Pages 311-333

15. Rational Living with Dying

    • Harry J. Sobel

    Pages 335-349

16. Back Matter

    Pages 351-353

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Since its launching in 1955, rational-emotive therapy (RET) has become one of the most influential forms of counseling and psychotherapy used by literally thousands of mental health practitioners throughout the world. From its beginnings, RET has dealt with problems of human disturbance. It presents a theory of how people primarily disturb themselves and what they can do, particularly with the help of a therapist or counselor, to reduce their disturbances (Ellis, 1957a,b, 1958a,b, 1962). Almost im­ mediately after the creation of RET, it became obvious that the meth­ odology could be used in many other fields-especially those involving human relations (Ellis & Harper, 1961a), and in love, sex, and marital relationships (Ellis, 1958a, 1960, 1963a,b; Ellis & Harper, 1961b). The evident popularity and clinical utility of RET in different cultures and its increasing application to contemporary problems of living indicate that rational-emotive therapy continues to be vital and dynamic. The growing appeal of RET may be due in part to its essentially optimistic outlook and humanistic orientation; optimistic because it pro­ vides people with the possibility and the means for change. Showing to people how their attitudes and beliefs are responsible for their emo­ tional distress and interpersonal problems (and not some out-of-con­ scious early childhood experience), awakens in them the hope that, in reality, they have some control over their destiny.

• Counseling
• Encounter
• Mental Health
• Training
• burnout
• childhood
• culture
• depression
• health
• media
• neurosis
• psychology
• psychotherapy
• stress
• therapy

• Institute of Rational-Emotive Therapy, New York, USA

  Albert Ellis

• University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

  Michael E. Bernard

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