ABSTRACT
One of the ways in which REBT theory encourages people to be mentally healthy is by not taking things that are important to them too seriously. There may be a number of reasons why you are an REBT therapist. These probably include: because you think that it is an effective way of working with people with emotional and behavioural problems; because it suits you personally to practise it. In short, REBT is an approach to therapy that is important to you and therefore it is healthy for you to take it seriously. This means that you are concerned to improve your skills as a practitioner and update your knowledge about how people with a range of problems disturb themselves and how they can be helped to undisturb themselves. As we argued in Point 96, attending CPD training events is a good way of putting into practice this way of taking REBT seriously.
