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Lang, Janet M. – 1980
Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET) is predicated on a theory of causality. According to Ellis (1962), beliefs regarding an event, and not the event itself, cause emotional reactions. Mentally healthy persons practice this reational theory of causality. Neurotic persons accept an irrational theory of causality based on coincidental or correlational…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Change Strategies, Child Development, Cognitive Processes


