Be vivid in your interventions, but avoid being too vivid

In the 1980s, I (WD) wrote of the importance of doing REBT in a vivid way (Dryden 1986). By this, I meant making your interventions memorable so that your clients can readily recall the rational principles you are teaching them. Since REBT is an educational approach to psychotherapy, your clients will be more likely to use rational principles in their lives if they are able to remember them. Vivid methods are effective because they stimulate your clients’ imagination and therefore more fully engage their emotions.