Free Psychology Books: Counseling and Psychotherapy Religious Persons by Stevan Lars Nielsen

Counseling and Psychotherapy Religious Persons by Stevan Lars Nielsen

 

This book proposes that rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) is uniquely and exceptionally well suited to treating the problems and concerns of religious clients. It offers a theoretical framework, practical recommendations, and examples from practice for accommodating clients’ religious beliefs. It discusses why interventions derived from the theory of REBT are seldom at odds with clients’ religious traditions and can, therefore, usually accommodate client religious beliefs even when client and therapist have very different religious orientations—even when a devoutly religious client, for example, is treated by an nonreligious, atheistic therapist. Moreover, because rational emotive interventions focus so specifically on beliefs, REBT is particularly wellsuited to integrating clients’ religious beliefs in its interventions. Thebook further proposes that integrating religious material with rational emotive interventions can render them particularly personal, forceful,vivid, and deep for religious clients.Neither accommodating clients’ religious beliefs during therapy nor integrating their religious beliefs in rational emotive interventions are atall foreign to the preferred practice of REBT. Because REBT is essentially a constructivist psychotherapy, it is both accommodative and integrative of client values and beliefs, including religious beliefs.As is described in greater detail later, REBTs emphasis on finding core beliefs allows for a simplicity and elegance of focus that is neutral with respect to most particulars in a client’s situation, including the particulars of a client’s religious beliefs.Although REBT can and usually does approach most problems from a neutral, constructivist perspective, its fundamental principles are quite sympathetic with most religious beliefs and “may actually be closer to the Judeo-Christian position than…most other systems of psychotherapy” (Di Giuseppe, Robin, & Dryden, 1990, p. 362). A number of rational emotive behavior therapists (REBTers) have noted profound similarity between the premises of REBT and Christian......

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