Client-Centered Therapy versus Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: Applications in Adjustment-to-Blindness Training Abstract

This article compares and contrasts person-centered therapy, also known as client-centered therapy, with rational emotive behavior therapy. This juxtaposition is used to highlight different parts of each model, which can be used effectively in the provision of adjustment-to-blindness training. Best practices for adjustment-to-blindness training are discussed and the counseling theories are applied to these training practices. Though adjustment-to-blindness training is not a mental health intervention, components of both counseling theories are useful in adjustment-to-blindness training. Since each instructional relationship between teacher and student is unique, each individualized style of instruction invokes its own combination of the two counseling theories.

adjustment-to-blindness training, Structured Discovery, rational emotive behavior therapy, person-centered therapy, client-centered therapy

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