(International Journal for Psychotherapy in Africa, 2018) Onisile, Deborah
This paper is a comparison between Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and Meseron Therapy. The three are very effective cognitive therapies used in clinical psychology practice. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy [REBT] was developed by Albert Ellis based on the rationale that irrational thinking is the root cause of psychological disturbances. Cognitive behavior therapy by Aaron Beck posits that how individuals view situations may result in psychological disturbances, while Meseron Therapy by Alfred Awaritefe 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.