ABSTRACT
It is important to persist at working on a problem once you and your clients have targeted it for change, such a problem is known as a target problem. The rational emotive behavioural treatment sequence outlines six major steps that you need to take if you are to deal with your clients' target problems thoroughly. Unless you have good reason to do otherwise, encourage your clients to remain focused on these problems and to work them through until they have reached a coping criterion on them. When your clients introduce new material into sessions, you need to evaluate this quite carefully and give only really important new material primacy over the current problem under discussion. When your clients face new acute problems in life, particularly involving suicidal ideation or violence, then it is important for you to deal with these problems without delay and persist in working with them until the clients have met coping criterion.
