Is rational emotive therapy most profitable with clients who are above average in intelligence?
Generally speaking response to all talking therapies, and to a lesser degree RET, is better when a person is above average intelligence, motivated, and communicative. RET deals with behavioral problems, therefore much behavioral practice is involved like stepping into an elevator for a claustrophobic person, thought stopping,and desensitization.Intelligence becomes more critical in psycho dynamically oriented therapy, where much introspection, free association, regression and transference are involved.
