RBT is designed to be a short term therapy which is based on discovering an unsuspected problem which creates unwanted mental, emotional and physical behaviors.
[1][2] According to Maultsby, RBT addresses all three groups of learned behaviors directly: the cognitive, the emotive, and the physical.
[3] One of the features of rational behavior therapy is that the therapist assigns the client "therapeutic homework".
[4] In Dr. Maultsby's book, Rational Behavior Therapy, he discusses the nine scientific approaches that are the foundation to this method: Some of the concepts of Rational Behavior Therapy is ABC Emotion scale, Five Rules for Healthy Thinking (5RHT), and Healthy Semantics.
However, unlike Ellis's technique, RBT leaves philosophical issues to patients' individual preferences.