ABSTRACT
One of the ultimate goals of REBT is to encourage clients to serve as their own therapists after formal therapy has come to an end. While you will be gratified when your clients have made therapeutic gains at the end of therapy, you will not consider that you have fully done your job unless you have taught them a self-change methodology. Unless your clients can apply what they have learnt in therapy to their lives at their own prompting, then whatever gains they may have achieved from therapy will probably not be maintained in the long run. Unless your clients have internalized a set of self-helping strategies and techniques, then they may well fail to deal with any new aversive activating events that they might encounter. Thus, your central task as an REBT therapist is:
• To introduce the concept of self-help into therapy. • Systematically to help your clients to acquire REBT self-help skills.
