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Rational-emotive therapy and the reduction of interpersonal anxiety in junior high school students . This study evaluated the effectiveness of rational-emotive therapy and rational-emotive imagery . Fifty-nine junior high school students who volunteered to participate in treatment for interpersonal anxiety were randomly assigned to rational-emotive therapy without imagery ( RET ) , rational-emotive therapy with imagery ( REI ) , relationship-oriented counseling ( ROC ) , and waiting-list control ( WLC ) groups . Groups met for seven 50-minute treatment sessions during a three-week period . Assessments were conducted at pretreatment , posttreatment , and three-week follow-up . Both self-report and sociometric measures were used to evaluate treatment outcome . At postassessment , both the RET and REI groups were rated on sociometric measures as significantly less interpersonally anxious than the WLC group . Mean scores favored the RET and REI groups , but no significant differences between these groups and the ROC group were obtained . The self-report measure did not significantly differentiate between groups , but the REI group demonstrated significant pre- to follow-up changes . Both the RET and REI groups yielded greater reductions in irrational thinking than did the ROC and WLC groups . In addition , the pattern of the results supported the use of rational-emotive imagery as a component of rational-emotive therapy . The practical implications of these findings are discussed .
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Intervention_Psychological
Rational-emotive therapy
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Intervention_Psychological
rational-emotive therapy
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Intervention_Psychological
rational-emotive imagery
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Intervention_Psychological
rational-emotive therapy without imagery ( RET )
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Intervention_Psychological
rational-emotive therapy with imagery ( REI )
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Intervention_Psychological
relationship-oriented counseling ( ROC )
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Intervention_Psychological
rational-emotive imagery
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Intervention_Psychological
rational-emotive therapy
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Outcome_Mental
interpersonal anxiety
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Outcome_Mental
interpersonal anxiety
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Outcome_Other
self-report and sociometric measures
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Outcome_Mental
sociometric measures
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Outcome_Other
anxious
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Outcome_Other
Mean scores
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Outcome_Other
self-report measure
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Outcome_Mental
reductions in irrational thinking
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Participant_Sample-size
Fifty-nine
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Participant_Condition
anxiety