Lecture 13 Flashcards
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
(ellis)
emphasizes that conscious and unconscious absolutistic philosphical tenets tend to lead to dysfuntional behaviors and emotions
- theory suggest that humans create their own emotional consequences
A-B-C theory
A. Activating event
-seeing a scary dog
B. Belief System
- believing all dogs are scary
c. Emotional consequences
A-B-C theory of personality underlying REBT - when a highly charged emotional consequences (C) follows a significant activating event (A) subsequent situations , emotional conseequences are largely created by (B) the individuals belief system
(ellis)
goal of REBT
enable clients to commit themselves to actions that correspond to their true value system, not to understand the casues or to remove the symptoms of pathologival behavior
main processes:
- Cognitive
- Emotive -evocative
- Behavioral
ellis systems emphasizes the biological aspects of human personality. have potential to change personal destinies, but also have exceptinally powerful innnate tendencies to think irrationally and to harm themselves
cognitive therapy
based on theory of personality that maintains that how one thinks largely determines how one feels and behaves
- Beck fully appreaciates the fact that most basic emotios are innate, survival-oriented responses to an environment that has changed greatly over the course of evolution
REBT and CBT
REBT bases its concepets of personality dysfuncton primarily on philosophical, existential and humanistic bases whereas cognitive therapy tends to support its concepts with empirical outcomes studies
schemas
structure that consist of an individuals fundamental core beliefs and assumptioms about how the world operates
- developed early in life
- guides what we notic and remember
- more stable than cognitions but somewhat depends on mood
(Beck)
automatic thoughts
involuntary, unintentional and preconscious thought that are hard to regulate
(Beck)
cognitive distortions
systematic errors in reasoning
cognitive distortions
systematic errors in reasoning
cognitive triad
tendency for depressed individuals to have a negative view of the self the world and the future
(beck)
in cognitive psychotherapty change can only occure when…
clients expereince affective arousal
(beck)
Beck depression inventory (BDI)
widely seen as the finest psychometric intrument for this objective
- has developed prifiles of different diagnostic categories articulated the thery and therpy for various disorders and conducted clinical trials on the therapy
multimodal therapy
rest on the base of social learing theory
- helps clients change the messages conjured up by their imaginations
-predicated on assumption that the more disturbed the clients is the greater the specific excesses and deficits there will be throughout the BASIC-ID. Bases his model on actualizaiton and self-determination rather than on pathology
BASIC -ID
comprehensive appraisal of personality
technical eclecticism
lazarus maintains that good treatment methods may be derived from many sources without necessarily agreeing with the theories that generated them.
- tailor made for client
0 maintains that the greater number of coping skills clients develop, the less they will backslide
