Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy Flashcards
Give a brief overview of REBT?
REBT is an action-oriented approach that’s focused on helping people deal with irrational beliefs and learn how to manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in a healthier, more realistic way.
When people hold irrational beliefs about themselves or the world, problems can result. REBT helps people recognize and alter those beliefs and negative thinking patterns in order to overcome psychological problems and mental distress
Who is associated with REBT?
Albert Ellis
What are the key concepts of REBT?
The first of the cognitive behaviour therapies and is one of the major cognitive-behavioural approaches.
o Considered to be the parent of today’s cognitive behavioural approaches.
Basic assumption of REBT is that people contribute to their own psychological problems, as well as to specific symptoms, by the rigid and extreme beliefs they hold about events and situations.
Based on the assumption that cognitions, emotions, and behaviours interact significantly and have a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship.
Basic hypothesis = our emotions are mainly created from our beliefs, which influence the evaluations and interpretations we make, fueling the reactions that we have to life situations.
What is the view of human nature in REBT?
FIND
What is the goal of REBT?
To minimize emotional disturbances and self-defeating behaviours by acquiring a more realistic, workable, and compassionate philosophy of life.
- The creation of a collaborative effort between therapist and client to choose realistic and life-enhancing therapeutic goals.
- Help clients to differentiate between realistic and unrealistic goals and between self-defeating and life-enhancing goals.
- Have clients learn how to change their dysfunctional emotions and behaviours into healthier one’s.
- Learn how to achieve unconditional self-acceptance (USA), unconditional other acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life acceptance (ULA).
- To think in a mindful manner.
What is the focus of REBT?
Emphasizes thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
- Emphasizes the importance of creating and maintaining unconditional acceptance of oneself, of others, and of life.
- Emphasizes the importance of practicing daily gratitude.
Emphasizes the here-and-now experiences and a clients’ present ability to change their patterns of thinking and emoting.
What is the role of the therapist in REBT?
To show clients how they have incorporated irrational absolute
shoulds, ought’s, and musts into their thinking.
To dispute clients’ irrational beliefs and encourage them
to engage in activities that will counter their self-defeating beliefs by replacing
their rigid musts with preferences.
What is the client experience of REBT?
Clients are taught skills that give them the tools to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that have been acquired and self-constructed, and that are maintained by self-indoctrination.
o Learn to replace detrimental ways of thinking with more effective and rational cognitions, changing their emotional experience and reactions to situations.
Clients are encouraged to actively work outside of therapy sessions by completing cognitive, emotive, and behavioural homework assignments.
o Helps clients to minimize irrational thinking and disturbances in feeling and behaving.
Clients learn ways to identify strategies to prevent or cope with new challenges as they arise.
What is the cleint therapist relationship in REBT?
Therapy is viewed as an educational process.
o The therapist, in many ways, functions like a teacher, collaborating with the client on homework assignments and introducing strategies for constructive thinking.
o Client is the learner who then practices these new skills in everyday life.
What are the methods, techniques, and procedures of REBT?
A core concept of REBT is the ABC model. This model explains how, while we may blame external events for our unhappiness, it is our interpretation of these events that truly lies at the heart of our psychological distress.
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Utilizes cognitive, emotive, and behaviour techniques
What are the strengths of REBT from a diversity perspective?
Adaptable and relevant for people from various cultures, races, religions, and gender identities.
- Is humanistic, non-rigid, non-damning, and embraces the value of unconditionally accepting belief systems that may be different to those of the therapists.
What are the limitations of REBT from a diversity perspective?
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