Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Flashcards
Who founded REBT? What was his goal?
Albert Ellis. First demonstrated REBT in 1957. His goal was to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.
Describe the reciprocal effect of REBT
REBT assumes that cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact and have reciprocal cause-and-effect relationships
REBT is highly didactic, directive, and concerned as much with thinking as with feeling (True or False)
True
Describe REBT’s Theory of Human Nature
- we are born with the potential for both rational and irrational thinking
- we have the biological and cultural tendency to think crookedly and to needlessly disturb ourselves
- we learn and invent disturbing beliefs and keep ourselves disturbed through out self-talk
- we have the capacity to change our cognitive, emotive, and behavioral processes
Describe the A-B-C-D-E model (theory of personality)
Activating Event
Beliefs about event
Emotional consequences
Effective new beliefs
Disputations to challenge irrational beliefs
Describe the theory of psychopathology
Also explained by the ABC’s. Psychopathology occurs when irrational beliefs cause emotional consequences.
Describe the assumption behind irrational beliefs
Irrational ideas (from rigid and dogmatic beliefs and unrealistic and overgeneralized attributions) lead to self-defeating behavior
Example:
“I must have love or approval from all the significant people in my life”
Describe the therapeutic process and some of the learning goals in therapy
- considered an educational process.
Learning goals include:
- to identify the interplay of thoughts, feelings, and emotions
- to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that are maintained by self-indoctrination
- to replace ineffective ways of thinking with effective and rational cognitions
- to stop absolutistic thinking, blaming, and repeating false beliefs
Three C’s of the therapeutic process
consciousness-raising, counterconditioning, contingency management
