Rational Emotive Therapy

Presents an overview of Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), which was developed by Dr. Albert Ellis in the 1950s. Features Dr. Ellis who tells how and why he began to discard traditional approaches and discusses the evolution of RET from both a professional and personal perspective. Takes the viewer into the Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy in New York City during a five-day practicum conducted by Dr. Ellis and the Institute's training staff, showing RET in practice with clients and students. Clarifies the ABC paradigm and offers alternatives to catastrophizing and to the destructive, irrational self-talk which RET practitioners feel is largely responsible for much emotional disturbance.