Chapter 10 Flashcards
Assumes that cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact and have a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
Teaches that emotions stem mainly from our beliefs that influence evaluations, interpretations, and reactions to life situations
REBT
Developed REBT
Albert Ellis
ABC model of personality (central to REBT)
A - activating event; B - belief about A; C - the emotional and behavioral consequence or reaction
3 Basic Musts of REBT
- I must do well and be loved and approved of by others.
- Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well.
- The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life.
Involves doing something that causes you to feel shame or fear in public.
Shame attacking
3 Theoretical Assumptions of CT
- People’s thought processes are accessible to introspection.
- People’s beliefs have highly personal meanings.
- People can discover these meanings themselves rather than being taught or having them interpreted by the therapist.
Client interprets life events through a negative filter.
Selective abstraction.
An exaggeration of normal, adaptive human functioning with a prime cause being faulty information processing (CT)
Psychological Distress
Believes client’s distorted beliefs are the result of cognitive errors rather than being driven solely by irrational beliefs.
CT
Negative cognitive triad
Negative views of the self, the world, and future.
Developed Cognitive Behavior Modification
Donald Meichenbaum