Abstract

Mental health curriculum should be delivered in classroom settings to address and remediate the socio-emotional needs of students with and without disabilities. Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a comprehensive, universal, and humanistic approach that focuses on the emotional distress manifested by individuals has been used with children and adolescents in schools and found to be an effective intervention. This paper presents a brief rationale explaining how REBT can be implemented in concert with tiered academic and behavior intervention models, and provides applied examples of lessons detailing how special educators can apply REBT sessions in classroom environments.