ABSTRACT
An approach to therapy advocates the use of techniques, it runs the risk of being criticized for neglecting the relationship between therapist and client. Clients who have previously had a relationship-oriented therapy in particular ask whether Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) neglects the therapeutic relationship. Carl Rogers argued that there were a set of necessary and sufficient core conditions that the therapist had to provide, and the client had to perceive the therapist as having provided these conditions, for therapeutic change to occur. Albert Ellis acknowledged that these conditions were important and frequently desirable, but they were hardly necessary and sufficient. Some REBT therapists regard the development of a good therapeutic relationship as setting the ground for the real therapy to take place, that is, the application of REBT techniques. The application of REBT techniques and so-called relationship factors are called interdependent therapeutic variables.
