Accommodating religion and integrating religious material during rational emotive behavior therapy

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) proposes that irrational beliefs e vident as absolutistic evaluations cause most self-defeating distress. Abso lutistic evaluations are not present in most religious traditions allowing for accommodation of clients' religious beliefs during REBT Religious doctr ine usually includes material that contradicts absolutistic evaluations, al lowing for integration of religious material with rational-emotive interven tions. Brief excerpts from sessions that demonstrate both accommodating and integrating religious belief during REBT are presented. A project seeking to develop a catalog of religious material for integration with REBT is als o briefly described.