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  • Comparison Between Cognitive Behaviour, Rational Emotive Behaviour And Meseron Therapies

    Comparison Between Cognitive Behaviour, Rational Emotive Behaviour And Meseron Therapies

    Abstract

    Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy [REBT], Cognitive Behaviour Therapy [CBT] and
    Meseron Therapy are three uniquely and very effective cognitive therapies used in clinical
    psychology practice. It is essential to clearly spell out the difference in the therapies as some
    psychologists in the past have experienced difficulty differentiating them. Rational Emotive
    Behaviour Therapy [REBT] was developed by Albert Ellis [1962] based on the rationale that
    irrational thinking is the root cause of psychological disturbances. Cognitive behaviour
    therapy [CBT] by Aaron Beck [1976], posits that how individuals view situations may result
    in psychological disturbances while Meseron Therapy by Alfred Awaritefe [1995] postulates
    that psychological disturbances arise as a result of faulty speaking as seen in the distortion of
    our appraisal mechanism, acquiescing to negativity and incongruence of striving and goals.
    This paper attempts to further explain each therapy in detail.

     

     

  • The Use Of African Proverbs To Motivate Clients In Meseron Therapy

    The Use Of African Proverbs To Motivate Clients In Meseron Therapy

    Abstract

    African proverbs use metaphors for practical living and for dissemination of wisdom
    intricately woven in conversations to accomplish acts which cannot be realized by ordinary
    words. Believed as handed down from the ancestors African proverbs are highly esteemed.
    Meseron therapy draws on African belief in the potency of the spoken words, affirming that
    people have psychological problems because of faulty speaking. That what we say or what is
    said about us affects our thought and behaviour. To correct the psychopathology, Meseron
    theorizes “saying it right” (rejecting wrong unwholesome words) taking covert actions at the
    level of thought and overt actions in form of words and deeds. To motivate clients Meseron
    therapists can incorporate some salient attributes of African proverbs such as their
    embedded expression of conventional truth which clients easily identify with without doubt
    when used by therapists, their brevity and easy to remember and understand nature which
    can influence clients perceptive capacity, appeal to their reasoning, and make them see self
    defeatist words as abnormal and pathological. Qualities such as availability, strong tool of
    persuasion, having a base of practical experience, common sense, intellectual richness worth
    listening to and obeying, make African proverbs a veritable tool in Meseron approach.