Open AccessRational-Emotive Therapy and Depression: A Clinical Case Study
Author(s) -
Arthur Mac Neill Horton,
Carl Hirschie Johnson
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
perceptual and motor skills
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.497
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1558-688X
pISSN - 0031-5125
DOI - 10.2466/pms.1980.51.3.853
Subject(s) - emotive , bibliotherapy , depression (economics) , psychotherapist , psychology , clinical psychology , rational emotive behavior therapy , test (biology) , psychiatry , medicine , cognition , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , biology , economics , macroeconomics
Rational-emotive group and bibliotherapy were used to treat a depressed patient in a clinical setting. Psychological test data document a dramatic improvement. It is suggested that rational-emotive therapy may prove efficacious for the treatment of some depressed patients in clinical settings.