ABSTRACT
Some clients, particularly those who have been in less directive therapies, are concerned that REBT's active-directive stance means that they will be prevented from finding their own solutions to their problems. Having heard therapists outline REBT's active-directive stance, they question whether REBT therapists prevent clients from finding their own solutions to their problems. In REBT, there are two types of solutions: psychological solutions and practical solutions. A psychological solution to your problems in the main involves you identifying, challenging and changing your irrational beliefs. A practical solution involves, amongst other things, responding behaviourally to negative. REBT therapists actively encourager clients to understand and implement REBT-orientated psychological solutions to their problems. When REBT therapists do intervene in the practical problem-solving phase of therapy, it is to help their clients weigh up the pros and cons of their own generated solutions and to select the most effective course of action'.
