Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Reality Therapy, and Transactional Analysis

Albert Ellis, How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about

Anything, Yes Anything, 1988, p. 45 (Reprinted with permission)

RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is a humanistic, actionoriented approach to emotional growth, which emphasizes (1) the individuals’ capacity for creating their emotions; (2) the ability to change and overcome the past by focusing on the present; and (3) the power to choose and implement satisfying alternatives to current patterns. REBT is a comprehensive approach to psychological treatment that deals not only with the emotional and behavioral aspects of human disturbance, but emphasizes its cognitive component: “Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”