Research
The Institute staff, in collaboration with faculty and students from St. John's University has created a data base of all of the outcomes studies testing the efficacy or effectiveness of REBT. This data base includes both published articles and unpublished doctoral dissertations. This accumulation of studies has taken us ten years to amass. Each article has been coded by researchers on a number of characteristics. You can search this data base to find studies on topics that interest you. You will find this under the Meta-Analysis section of this site. If you discover an omission, please inform us so we can update the list.
In the future we will be working on setting up a database of research articles designed to test Ellis theory. This will include studies of inventories measuring irrational and rational thinking and test of the hypothesized relationships between thinking and emotions proposed by Ellis and his collaborators. If you have done such studies or know of some, please send them to our attention.
We hope that the research will support the basic theory and therapy of Albert Ellis and extend our knowledge in ways not yet imagined.
