Talk:Rational emotive behavior therapy

message: * I don't think the ABCs in RET are a personality theory (as the article suggests), or a theory at all.  The ABCs are a method of identifying irrational ideas and beliefs about events and the emotional and behavioural consequences of those beliefs.  The ABCs are a means or a methodology of teaching one how to objectively evaluate their emotional state and make meaningful changes that improve their emotional well being. --(Unknown - Unsigned)
* It has been years since I studied RET so I'll break out a few of my books and see if I can contribute to and also clarify some of the article. --(Unknown - Unsigned)
* I did change the word solely to primarily because RET (Ellis) does not suggest all human emotional disturbance is the result of thoughts and beliefs. --Mr Christopher 23:16, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The ABCs of REBT

message: * Are there any major criticisms of REBT? It usually seems that most psychology-related articles have a major section for controversies. --GoodSirJava 19:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Critique and limitations

message: * The the RET article was tiny and did not contain any information not covered in this one.-- Sethie 20:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirects and moves

message: * I have done quite a few corrections to this articles, due to what I see as incomplete over-simplified approach in explaning REBT. Especially the general logic on the relations between affect, cognition and behavior, whith Albert Ellis has explaned in a lot of articles throughout the years, better be better explaned. I recommend to do quite a bit of work on this article in the future to clean up the article to that it reflects REBT in a better bay.--16.6.2005 - User: 152.94.23.64/81.191.24.1
* great!!! Welcome aboard.--Sethie 16:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Quality standards  and further development

message: * There are currently two link sections (general+applications) in article. It has been recommended that the article does not have too many links since it will make the readability worse. In my view I recommend that only the most important REBT pages are listed in the links section and that small articles or commercial services are not listed. --139.117.10.100 (talk) 12:54, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links section 

message: :This was incorrectly placed at Talk:Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy/Comments; moved here. /skagedal... 22:36, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is still in the text... It does sound like an insanely extreme variant of catastrophic thinking.  Really, are these the words of Ellis or did someone have a little fun? /skagedal... 22:36, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: There is a discussion on how the topic of this article should be written – "Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy" or "rational emotive behavior therapy" – at the psychology WikiProject. /skagedaltalk 07:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the proposal was move to uncapitalized name.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:36, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: Would someone American and familiar with the level of used of this therapy please add and reference to the History section of this article. There is no context in this article as to its level of use in current practice. I never see it used in Australia, and have not seen it referred to in Clinical Practice Guidelines in the US. Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:36, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A really difficult question to quantify.  This approach has been incorporated into a more general concept of CBT, just as the earlier concepts and techs of Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy .  Probably best considered a school of thought within cognitive therapy, rather than now being a distinct therapy, although those advocating for REBT do strongly promote its underlying theory and techiques, as distinctly different from AT Becks approach or CBT.  Many practicing cognitive therapists would be taught and use some of the original techs of REBT - although most would fail to make a distinction, during clinical day to day practice.   Formal research and clinical guidelines tend make reference to CBT in general.
The article is overly detailed - probably needs to be written for a more general audience.  Earlypsychosis (talk) 05:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Level of current usage 

message: Hi User:JPaestpreornJeolhlna, can you please explain why you put a  template in the middle of the title of Ellis book? Sic is "used where a textual error, or unexpected but intended text that may appear to be an error, has been faithfully reproduced from the original source." But what is the error?? "Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: It Works for Me - It Can Work for You" I don't see it. Lova Falk talk 07:01, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The error is the hyphen-minus (-), which should be an en dash (–), or, if left unspaced, an em dash (—). This is a common typographic error—even by editors of Wikipedia. For this reason, a  tag helps to clarify that the title originally did contain the mistake. — |J~Pæst|  07:08, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

text: Now that I've checked, the article actually did contain an error: two hyphen-minuses (--) instead of a spaced single one! I've just fixed it, but I actually cannot find whether or not the original title had the hyphen-minus. Any reliable sources? — |J~Pæst|  07:19, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What about this picture?. As far as I can see it is an em dash (—).Lova Falk talk 07:36, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It really depends on the typeface… an actual documented text of the book title would be better. Since it seems as if it were actually an editor's mistake, I've changed it to an em dash and removed the  tag. — |J~Pæst|​ 15:53, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template in the middle of a book title 

message: I've commenced an article on Harold Greenwald. He was a prominent therapist and best-selling author, mainly for his book on call girls. One of the things he did was to start something called "direct decision therapy." He wrote a book on the topic in the eighties and was very widely quoted in the papers at the time. I became interested in Greenwald because he was the brother of the choreographer Michael Kidd, and he's plainly notable enough in his own right to be worthy of an article. However, I know nothing about psychology and I want to be sure that the article does not give undue deference to what may be (for all I know) a fringe theory. I notice that "direct decision therapy," which was a variation on REBT, is not even mentioned in this article, which makes me nervous. Some expert  suggestions on the subject would be appreciated. Please note that the Greenwald article is under construction and that at this point I haven't gotten to his call girls book, which was made into a movie and was his major claim to notability. Coretheapple (talk) 17:18, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "Direct decision therapy"

message: One of the best-selling books of all time, Wayne Dyer's Your Erroneous Zones, is based on the principles of REBT (Ellis dixit). Shouldn't it at least be mentioned in the article? --Savig (talk) 11:05, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Your Erroneous Zones