About Rational Behavior Therapy
People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them. One of the fundamental premises of rational behavior therapy is that humans, in most cases, do not merely get upset by unfortunate adversities, but also by how they construct their views of reality through their language, evaluative beliefs, meanings and philosophies about the world, themselves and others. This therapy is designed to be a short term therapy which is based on the belief of discovering an unsuspected problem which creates unwanted mental, emotional and physical behaviors. The beliefs are explicit and implicit philosophical meanings and assumptions about events, personal desires, and preferences. If a person’s evaluative belief about an event is rigid, absolutistic and dysfunctional, the emotional and behavioral consequence, is likely to be self-defeating and destructive, while if a person’s evaluative belief is flexible and constructive, the emotional and behavioral consequence is likely to be self-helping and constructive.