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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.