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REBT with Clients with Disabilities

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REBT with Diverse Client Problems and Populations

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The World Health Organization (2011) estimates that more than a billion people world-wide live with some form of disability, i.e., 15% of the world’s population (WHO, 2011, p. 7). In the United States, over 60 million people have one or more disabilities (www.cdc.gov/disabilities, 2017). The rate of disability increases with increasing age. In the United States, nearly 34% of those over 75 years of age are disabled.

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  1. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 420 East 72nd St, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    Rochelle Balter

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  1. University of London, London, UK

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  2. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

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Balter, R. (2019). REBT with Clients with Disabilities. In: Dryden, W., Bernard, M. (eds) REBT with Diverse Client Problems and Populations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02723-0_19

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