Albert Ellis, 1955

RATIONAL EMOTIVE THEORY

(psychologist) Unsatisfied with the results offered by traditional psychoanalytic theraphy

INVENTOR

ABOUT THEORY

self-help / self-management type of therapy

PROS
Helps clients to face reality Helps clients to know what are the causes of their problem It save time as this therapy helps the client to achieve the resolution of their problem very fast Clients taught to be more rational in their way of thinking and to face the problem Clients very satistied with their own intellectual abilities and their improvement in the way they think -

CONS
Some clients feel stress because they cannot achieve the thinking level required by the counsellor to find the way in solving their problems ( it is very limited for the adults to think the same way like the teenagers It is difficult to bring back some clients to reality as they think too much about their resolution

popular because it makes sense to most people, and they can and do use it helps them better manage their thoughts feelings and behaviors

CENTRAL CONSTRUCT (A-B-C) Antecedent-something that happens to us Belief-our thoughts about the antecedent (what happened to us

ACTIVITY : Demands and Desires

Teacher gives some examples and students need to classify them based on what is demand and desire using RET

Consequence -the emotion that we feel or behavior that we do as a result of our thoughts about what happened to us