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Peer reviewedChurch, James Lee – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1996
Claims that self-defeating behavior is a rational attempt to satisfy early, introjected messages about the type of person one is, arising from a desire for things perceived as good--sub specie boni. Examines the notion of the comfort zone, toxic shame, and therapists' responsibility to nourish acceptable joy. (RJM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Counseling Theories, Personality Problems, Prisoners
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
