ABSTRACT
Guilt is, of course, a common theme in psychotherapy. It frequently creates confusion and presents complex problems for psychotherapists and clients, especially religious clients and the psychotherapists attempting to treat them. For example, religious clients may view guilt as both a positive and a negative phenomenon-an experience given them by God for their benefit. REBT provides a unique model and methods for clarifying the separable elements in a client’s guilt experience. Rational emotive examination of guilt may provide religious clients with religiously acceptable relief from the selfdefeating aspects of their guilt and, furthermore, may actually help clients behave in ways they find religiously more acceptable.
