Abstract:

Given the continuous growth of psychological problems in the populations of developped countries within the last decades, it is obvious: There will never be enough psychotherapists to face this challenge. Prevention by psycho-education becomes mandatory. Given the high rates of comorbidity and of life prevalence for different psychological problems, it is obvious: This psycho-education should be better transdiagnostic, and available not only in adult education, but already for youth.

Rational emotive sophistic will be presented as one approach for such a transdiagnostic psycho-education for adults and youth, which combines one of the most promising cognitive-behavioral, transdiagnostic prevention methods that was developed in the last decades - rational emotive psycho-education - with one of the oldest methods of psycho-education, already known in antiquity, whose value has become rediscovered more and more in the last years. My contribution will start with a sketch of rational emotive psycho-education and a sketch of the Protagorean brand of sophistic, the oldest occidental form of professional adult education. Then I will show how the combination of the two ingredients makes rational emotive sophistic more apt for an approach to transdiagnostic psycho education for adults. Finally, I will discuss the affordances to apply this approach to transdiagnostic psycho-education also with youth.

References:
[1] Scholz, W.-U. (2012). Adult psycho-education and transdiagnostic psychotherapy. Another trip back to the future. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation ICERI2012,(ISBN-Nr. 978-84-616-01763-1) Madrid, (Spain) 19th-21st of November 2012, (p. 4834-4843)
[2] Scholz, W.-U. (2014). From Rational Effectiveness Training to Cre-active Coaching, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation ICERI2014 (ISBN 978-84-617-2384-0) Sevilla, (Spain) 17th -19th of November, 2014 (p. 6224-6233)

Keywords:

Rational emotive education, neo-sophistics, psycho-education, prevention of psychological problems.