ABSTRACT
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) clients will rarely, if ever, learn to surrender an irrational belief and gain deep conviction in an alternative rational belief after one session. They may understand a rational principle in one session, but in the next session act as if they have not even heard of that principle. It is important, therefore, to realize that you will need to repeat your interventions before your clients begin to understand and act on the rational principles that you teach them. With some clients, it is important to repeat rational messages in exactly the same way. So, ask your clients whether they learn best by having the same material repeatedly presented in the same way or whether they find it more useful to have the same thing taught in different ways. Once you have established that your clients learn best from variety, you should seek to repeat the same rational principle with different explanations, analogies and audio-visual aids.
