Abstract
Effective RET involves helping clients to help themselves by questioning the should’s, the awfulizing, and the self-downing that lead to emotional disturbance and that limit one’s options in living a happy, productive, and fulfilled life.
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the various systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them. Alfred North Whitehead
If you just bought the culture, the average person will never get around to the answers because he or she hasn’t begun to ask the right questions. Bonnie Strickland
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Wolfe, J.L., Naimark, H. (1991). Psychological Messages and Social Context. In: Bernard, M.E. (eds) Using Rational-Emotive Therapy Effectively. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0641-0_10
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