ABSTRACT
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is a structured approach to psychotherapy. To practise REBT effectively, therapists will need to organize and structure their therapy sessions with clients. Setting an agenda with your clients is a useful way of ensuring that important items which you both wish to address are covered in a therapy session, or if they are not they may be put on the agenda for the following session. Albert Ellis's view of agenda setting was that it may foster unhelpful consumerism and may, in fact, lead to avoidance of core problems in that it encourages clients with discomfort intolerance beliefs to focus on issues that are less threatening for them to address. Agreeing an agenda for a therapy session gives both you and your clients a way of evaluating the introduction of new material into the session. Therapists will find it particularly important to maintain a tight structure when working with clients who have a histrionic personality organization.
