Rational emotive behaviour therapy in the treatment of stress

Rational emotive behaviour therapists view stress-related disorders as originating in irrational beliefs (iB’s), phirosophies and anitudes, as opposed to the stressor. People who suffer from stress d@erfrom people who suffer from emotional or neurotic problems mainly an that the stressed people have iB’s about specific, short-term or more readdy identifiable events, as opposed w the more mundane and dt-e dt.culLies suffied by the neurotic individual. Both the conscMus and unconscwus antecedents w stress daficulties and how they relate w distomd thinking and psychophyswlogical disorders are discussed from an infonnatwn-processing perspective. Rational emotive behaw‘our treatments for stress-related disorders are detahd and explained.