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Family therapies are effective for a wide variety of concerns and presentations for families seeking treatment. Though developed as a therapeutic approach to working with individuals, rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) has been expanded for use with families (REBT-F). This chapter describes how the theory, principles, values, and strategies of traditional REBT can be and have been applied to families. The REBT approach of examining and changing irrational, disturbance-causing beliefs to more rational, adaptive beliefs in the context of families is presented. Although there is substantial research supporting the use of REBT for individuals and cognitive behavioral therapy for families, unfortunately empirical work on the effectiveness of REBT-F is limited. The implications for both theoretical and practical applications of REBT-F are discussed.
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Fuller, O.G., Edelman, B., Del Vecchio, T. (2020). The Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Approach to Working with Families. In: Bernard, M., Terjesen, M.D. (eds) Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Theory, Practice, Research, Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53901-6_7
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