Emotional Responsibility and Dealing With Other People By Dan Prendergast, M.A. Much of the time in therapy we work with a client on distressing aspects of their experience that they identify as a target for treatment. Some of the time, however, a client’s stress or distress is associated with the expressed emotions or behaviors of another person with whom they have some sort of relationship. This could be a boss, a coworker, a friend or family member, or a significant other. Perhaps these other people “outside the therapy room” are experiencing their own distressing emotions, and perhaps they are acting badly or in self-defeating ways, and quite understandably a client would like to intervene such that the third person either feels less distress or behaves in a more preferable manner. There are several principles of REBT that are very pertinent to this situation.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:12:56 +0000
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