As one of several major therapeutic theoretical orientations, cognitive therapy (sometimes called cognitive behavioral therapy) is an orientation that has attracted many consultants in the contemporary era. There are not only psychologists who have made important contributions to the success of this orientation, nor are they a group of people working together in concert, but many have developed their own systems relatively independently. As these systems mature, they are found to have the same or similar orientations. It is generally believed that the "interaction analysis" (TA) of Eric Bourne, Mechinbaum's " cognitive behavior correction ", Baker's "cognitive therapy" of , Ellis's "rational-emotion therapy" (RET), and Grasser's "reality therapy".
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2, education tendency
RET has a strong educational color. It can also be said that it is an educational treatment model. First, in terms of the principles of counseling and treatment, RET does not avoid the fact that it seeks to educate clients with a set of psychological lifestyles it considers to be reasonable and sound. The basic goal of RET is to help people think more rationally, experience and feel more appropriately, and act more effectively. Secondly, the treatment process of RET has a strong teaching flavor. During consultation, RET counselors or therapists often use explanation, persuasion and even debate to teach clients to question their unreasonable beliefs, and use educational technologies such as reading RET books, lectures, recordings, discussions, demonstrations, etc. to teach clients to use RET's thinking methods to replace irrational thinking methods with rational beliefs and thinking methods. Finally, rational-emotion therapy has also specially developed a system suitable for children and school consultation, called "rational-emotional education", which is a system used for teenagers' psychological education and counseling, aiming to help children improve their psychological functions and solve various problems in learning.
3. Emphasize the role of rationality and cognition
Rationality—emotional therapy recognizes and emphasizes the integrity of psychological functions, believing that human perception, thinking, experience and actions are interconnected wholes. Emotional and action approaches are also widely adopted in the treatment pathway. But it attaches more importance to the role of rationality and cognition. This is RET and one of the most essential features of all cognitive therapies. Rational—A basic assumption of emotion therapy is that human emotions come from people’s beliefs, evaluations, explanations or philosophical views on what they encounter, not from things themselves. Emotions and actions are subject to cognition, and cognition is the "bull's nose" of human psychological activities. If you straighten the "bull's nose" of cognition, the emotional and behavioral troubles will be greatly improved. Therefore, in the treatment of RET, cognitive correction is always placed in the most prominent position and given the most priority.
