CBT Flashcards
Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Emphasizes thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing, and doing
Emotional and behavioral difficulties develop when people mistake
simple preferences (desires for love, approval, success) for dire needs
People DO NOT NEED to be accepted and loved, so therapists teach clients
to feel undepressed despite not being loved and/or accepted by others
Blame is at the core of most emotional disturbances,
so people must learn to accept themselves with imperfections if they want to get better. Anxiety stems from the internal repetition of irrational sentences.
A-B-C Theory of Personality
A (Activating event) B (Belief) C (Emotional and Behavioral Consequences
REBT
The main function of the therapist is to challenge clients to reevaluate their ideas and philosophy of life
The founder of rational emotive behavior therapy is:
Albert Ellis
The role of the client in rational emotive behavior therapy is like that of a:
student or learner
An REBT therapist would contend that anxiety stems from:
the internal repetition of irrational sentences
The REBT technique that involves having clients imagine themselves in situations where they feel inappropriate feelings is called:
rational-emotive imagery
Beck’s cognitive therapy is widely applied to the treatment of:
depression
The cognitive distortion of making conclusions without supporting & relevant evidence is:
arbitrary inferences
The cognitive distortion that consists of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event is:
selective abstraction
The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident & applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or setting is known as:
overgeneralization
Constructivist perspective in cognitive therapy holds that:
there are multiple realities & a therapist’s task is to help clients appreciate how they construct their realities & how they author their stories
