ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author argues that the people need to commit themselves to using their solution regularly if they want to maintain their self-help gains. He considers what the people need to do to maintain the gains that they have made from helping themselves and also how they can generalize gains. Then, the author discusses how the people can take the skills they have learned when dealing with their first nominated problem and apply these to different problems. The author shows the people how they can take the healthy attitudes that rational emotive behaviour therapy considers to be the foundations of constructive responses to life's adversities and apply these across the board. In addition to dealing with their nominated problem and generalizing their gains to related adversities, the people may have other problems which are very different from their nominated problem and those related problems may feature similar adversities to the one at core of the people nominated problem.