ABSTRACT
Before we outline the 100 key points that we hope will improve your practice of REBT, we will outline the basics of this approach to therapy.
Brief history
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) was founded in 1955 by Albert Ellis, an American clinical psychologist who had become increasingly disaffected with psychoanalysis in which he trained in the late 1940s. Originally, the approach was called Rational Therapy (RT) because Ellis wanted to emphasize its rational and cognitive features. In doing so, Ellis demonstrated the philosophical influences (largely Stoic) on his thinking. In 1961, he changed its name to Rational-Emotive Therapy to show critics that it did not neglect emotions, and over 30 years later (in 1993) Ellis renamed the approach yet again, calling it Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy to show critics that it did not neglect behaviour.
