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-One Certification Program
The Rational Living Therapy Level-Two training emphasizes the RLT approach to personality disorders.
The RLT approach demystifies the concept of the personality disorder and teaches attendees why the common
view that many mental health professionals take of them is very problematic.
Attendees will learn a very straightforward, yet powerful approach to helping people overcome these life-long
patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Attendees will also learn advanced techniques for identifying and correcting mistaken underlying
assumptions, as well as advanced techniques for helping people to overcome problems with depression and
anxiety.
Day One
Review of RLT Process
* Review of the RLT Process
attendees learned during the
Level-One Training. Correction
of any problems attendees might
have experienced in
implementing the RLT approach.
Advanced Underlying
Assumption Correction
* Assessment Techniques
* Assumption Correction
* Developing Ideal and Less
Ideal Replacement Assumptions
RLT Treatment of Personality
Disorders
*
Stages of Treatment
* Engagement techniques to
encourage the client to be
involved in treatment.
Day Two
RLT Treatment of Personality
Disorders
* Pattern Analysis Techniques
* Underlying Assumptions that are
characteristic of the various
personality disorders
* Pattern Change Techniques
* Pattern Maintenance
* Termination and Relapse
Prevention
Advanced Disputing /
Countering Techniques
* Soft, Hard, and Objective
Techniques
Attendees will learn a variety of
advanced techniques to encourage
cognitive change, therefore
creating change in emotions and
behavior.
Day Three
Advanced Understanding of
Logical Fallacies
* Attendees will learn how to
recognize and correct scientific,
pseudoscientific, logical, and
psychological problems in
thinking.
Mood Disorders Treatment
Attendees will learn advanced
RLT techniques to help clients
overcome problems with
depression.
Anxiety Disorders Treatment
Attendees will learn advanced
techniques to help clients
overcome anxiety, phobias, panic,
agoraphobia, and obsessive-
compulsive disorder.
Level-Two Certification Seminar
July 21-23, 2010
Earn an RLT
Level-Two
Certification!