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Rational Living Therapy
Earn 18 Contact Hours!
Prerequisite:  Graduate Degree in Mental Health Field or Current Graduate Student in Mental Health Field
                       Successful Completion of the Rational Living Therapy – Level-Three Certification Program
The Rational Living Therapy Level-Four training brings everything together from Levels One-Three.  You
will use your knowledge acquired from the previous training levels by applying it to case examples from
assessment to termination.
You will also learn about the top forty “shoulds” and “musts” that greatly disturb people and how to dispute
them.  You will have the opportunity to practice the Systematic Approach to Thought Acquisition (SATA)
technique for stubborn thoughts.  Finally, you will have the opportunity to practice developing “reconstructed”
and “modified” rational replacement thoughts for a variety of irrational thoughts.  All attendees are required
to participate throughout the training.  Successful completion requires participation.  
Day One
Complete Review of RLT
Process
* From Assessment to Therapy to 
   Termination.
* Dr. Pucci will answer questions 
   concerning the RLT therapeutic 
   process, as well as resistance 
   issues.
How to Recognize the Top Forty
“Shoulds” and “Musts” That
* How to convey to clients why 
   these “shoulds” are not based on 
   fact. 
Review of How to Develop
“Reconstructed” and “Modified”
Rational Replacement Thoughts
Review of the Systematic
Approach to Thought
Acquisition (SATA) Technique
Day Two
Practice Developing
Reconstructed and Modified
Thoughts
Practice Utilizing the SATA
Technique
Case Presentation and
Application
* Each Attendee will present at 
   least one case example to which 
   we will apply the therapeutic 
   process from assessment to 
   termination.
* Dr. Pucci and attendees will 
   provide feedback to the 
   presenting attendee.  Dr. Pucci 
   will assess attendees’ feedback.
Day Three
Case Presentation and
Application
* Each Attendee will present at 
   least one case example to which 
   we will apply the therapeutic 
   process from assessment to 
   termination.
* Dr. Pucci and attendees will 
   provide feedback to the 
   presenting attendee.  Dr. Pucci 
   will assess attendees’ feedback.
Level-Four Certification Seminar
December 8-10, 2010
Earn an RLT
Level-Four
Certification!
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