ABSTRACT
This book proposes that rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is uniquely and exceptionally well suited to treating the problems and concerns of religious clients. It offers a theoretical framework, practical recommendations, and examples from practice for accommodating clients’ religious beliefs. It discusses why interventions derived from the theory of REBT are seldom at odds with clients’ religious traditions and can, therefore, usually accommodate client religious beliefs even when client and therapist have very different religious orientationseven when a devoutly religious client, for example, is treated by an nonreligious, atheistic therapist. Moreover, because rational emotive interventions focus so specifically on beliefs, REBT is particularly well suited to integrating clients’ religious beliefs in its interventions. The book further proposes that integrating religious material with rational emotive interventions can render them particularly personal, forceful, vivid, and deep for religious clients.
