In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT, I often encourage my patients to complete self-help forms when in a state of emotional disturbance. REBT practitioners have created different self-help forms to assist a patient in identifying and changing their self-defeating attitudes. These are great tools, but too often, patients refuse to sit down when in the throes … Read more

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is a psychoeducational approach to both emotional problems and self-actualization. In my view, it is a philosophy or a way of life that applies to a wide range of everyday challenges and the accomplishment of goals that enrich your life. To use this philosophical approach, you first need to understand the … Read more

Learn to Feel Disappointment – Dr. Walter J. Matweychuk In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), one distinguishing feature is that we want you to feel healthy negative emotions when you do not get what you want, desire, or prefer. We also want you to feel a healthy feeling of concern when you face a threat … Read more

In Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we distinguish between healthy negative emotions and unhealthy negative emotions. Healthy negative emotions include concern, sadness, remorse, disappointment, sorrow, and self-helping anger, self-helping jealousy, and self-helping envy. In this piece, I will discuss the healthy negative feeling of concern. I often say concern is my favorite healthy negative emotion. … Read more

Attend The Saturday Morning Rational Emotive Behavioral Conversation Hour and Learn How to Help Yourself Using the Self-Helping Philosophy of Dr. Albert Ellis In working with my patients over the past few weeks as the pandemic drags on, one aspect of the COVID-19 crisis that appears to be challenging to many is the pandemic’s open-ended … Read more

Warning: This Intermittent Reinforcement email is long, but well worth reading! You can bear the struggle. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a philosophy of life used psychotherapeutically. One unique aspect of it as a form of psychotherapy is that it advocates for the development of unconditional self-acceptance. Cultivating unconditional self-acceptance is not an easy task. No other therapy … Read more

Dr. Albert Ellis, the originator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), often said that “Repetition is the mother of learning.” I like to remind my patients that to use REBT, one needs to understand its core principles and therapeutic strategies. REBT is a psychoeducational therapy, and therefore one can learn by listening to audios and videos. On … Read more

​To derive maximum benefit from REBT, you need to understand the theory and core concepts of REBT. To use the ABC model of REBT, you need to identify the Adversity you are facing, and the Basic Attitudes that are largely responsible for your emotional upset. The attitudes you hold have profound Consequences for how you … Read more