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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Ellis)

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what we think influence what we feel and do (thinking comes first!)

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Frontal lobe vs limbic system (REBT)

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Frontal lobe more important than limbic system (emotions come second)

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ABC (REBT)

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  1. Activating Event
  2. Beliefs
    -rational
    -irrational
  3. Consequences
    A to C is filtered by B
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past vs present (REBT)

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doesn’t focus on past; current feelings and behaviors are consequences of irrational thoughts

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Rational vs. Irrational Beliefs

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irrational tendency to turn preferences into absolute musts
irrational ex. self/other/world demandingness
rational ex. flexible/acceptance
high frustration/tolerance
anti-awfulizing

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REBT counseling

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  • identify faulty beliefs
  • Disputing (dispute irrational thought)
  • Homework
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Existentialism (created by your choices)

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  • EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE!

- self awareness of our existence differs us from other animals

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Existence precedes Essence

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born first w/o essence (knowledge) then builds essence based on choices we make every day

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Humans thrown into meaningless random universe

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  • no external criteria for good and evil
  • no transcendent reward or punishment
  • **Humanity is the sum total of our choices
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Human beings are made of our choices (what it takes to be human)

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  • our choices makes statement in universe
  • you are your choices
  • no excuses for your behavior
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Responsibility for our actions (Existentialism) (What happens when we take responsibility for our actions?)

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-if people take responsibility for their actions, they almost always end up doing what other people want them to do

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Self as subject vs. self as object

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Existentialism

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Yalom (Existentialism

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  • importance of awareness
  • courage + authenticity in the face of existential facts
  • four central existential concerns
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4 central existential concerns

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  • death
  • freedom
  • isolation
  • meaning
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Freedom (Existentialism)

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  • responsibility
  • victimhood
  • choice
  • will
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Isolation (Existentialism)

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-we are ultimately alone
-centrality of relationships
-I it (object)
- I thou
(subject)
-needs - free relationship

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Meaning (Existentialism)

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  • sense or coherence
  • purpose: intention, aim, function
  • Self-transcendence: beyond pleasure principle
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Frankel (Existentialism)

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obligated to create meaning

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*Ilam (Existentialism)

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address existential concerns to lead a life w/ less symptoms

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Saulter (Existentialism)

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create meaning out of choices we make

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Key therapeutic question (existentialism)

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What are the good reasons for the client’s negative behaviors?

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Existential counseling

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  • understanding phenomological world of client
  • Affirmation (understanding good behaviors) ex. why a client drinks
  • help client make authentic choices
  • movement towards freedom and responsibility
  • client has more control over their lives than they thought
  • engaged encounter as healing (person to person)
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Gestalt Therapy

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  • humans function as a whole

- be yourself and be the person you think you can be

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Gestalt view on human nature

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  • equilibrium
  • disequilibrium
  • awareness of need/sensation
  • taking actions
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sadistic regulation vs. organismic regulation

Gestalt

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sadistic: want to quit job and will do it now
organismic: want to quit job but wait until find new job first

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Gestalt key concepts

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  • find wholeness + integration through the here and now
  • reintegration of self
  • behavior is function of a person in an environment
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Gestalt dreams

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  • dreams not to be interpreted, but experienced
  • everything in dream represents diff parts of the dreamer
  • royal road to integration
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Gestalt counseling

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  • awareness of unmet needs
  • assimilate disowned parts
  • finish unfinished business
  • integrate polarities
  • open complete path of contact w/ environment
  • I thou relationship
  • frustrate client to get them to take responsibility + integrate split off parts
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Feminism therapy

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  • the personal is political
  • change situation around person instead of person herself
  • counselor sees client as subject rather than object
  • self as object vs. self as subject (can’t be both at same time)
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Feminism counseling

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  • let clients make own decisions
  • goes against traditional therapeutic values and procedures
  • equality
  • power
  • political personal oppression
  • social justice
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The personal is political (feminism)

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  • based on egalitarianism

- empowerment and social change as goals

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