ABSTRACT
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) clients make themselves disturbed in specific contexts. It is therefore important for you to encourage them to be specific in talking about their problems, and ask for specific examples of these problems. This will help you to conduct an accurate assessment of the ABCs of the problem. If they talk about their problems in abstract terms, you will receive a general, intellectual and unemotional account. Encouraging your clients to be specific about their problems will also help them to be emotionally involved in the discussion. You can encourage them to identify a recent example of their problem or a typical example of their problem. In doing so, encourage your clients to be succinct, but to be as descriptive as possible so that you can understand what happened as if you had a video and audio recording of the event.
