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Vol IX, No. 1

(2006) NO 1. Vol VI Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies

THE CONGRUENCE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY

THE CONGRUENCE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY WITHIN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MAINSTREAM CHRISTIANITY

Steve JOHNSON *

Congregational Care and Counseling

Valley Community Church

Avon, Connecticut

Abstract:
This paper attempts to demonstrate that the philosophy of REBT and the philosophy of Christianity are congruent. Both seek to transform the individual who is experiencing pain, alienation, self-defeating behaviors into a person with a radically new and liberating philosophy of life, or newly uncovered and self-accepted being. Moreover, the key to this transformation is a change of fundamental beliefs away from dogmatic demandingness, awfulizing, low frustration tolerance, and self and other-downing toward an unconditional acceptance of the self, others, the world, and life.

Key words: REBT, Christian philosophy, unconditional self acceptance (USA), unconditional other acceptance (UOA), unconditional life acceptance (ULA)

Pages: 45-55