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REBT Flashcards

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Precursors of REBT

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  • Greek and Roman stoic philosophers: “People are not disturbed by things, but the view in which they take them”
  • Adler came up with the S-O-R theory (stimulus-organism-response)
  • We determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations
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History of Albert Ellis

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  • Claimed that client-centered/psychoanalytic therapies don’t help solve problems and are too passive (used to be a client-centered therapist)
  • People make dysfunctional, irrational demands that set them up for distress
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Describe the theory of personality for REBT.

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  • Biopsychosocial approach
  • ABC’s
  • Reindoctrination
  • We are born with the potential to be rational or irrational
  • Irrational thinking is exacerbated by culture and social groups
  • We create our own distress
  • Our emotions, perceptions, and behaviors relate to the way we think
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Physiological element of the theory of personality

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  • All humans are born with tendencies to want things
  • When we don’t immediately get these things, our immediate reaction is to condemn ourselves and others
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Social element of the theory of personality

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  • We place too much emphasis on what other people think of us + approval
  • Some only accept themselves when others accept them
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Psychological element of the theory of personality

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  • People needlessly upset themselves with irrational beliefs, extremeness, and absolutes (musturbation)
  • Irrational demands, by definition, will not be met
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ABC’s of the theory of personality

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  • A: activating event (what happened)
  • B: belief (how you define the event)
  • C: consequence (how you feel after the event)
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Reindoctrination

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  • Repeating the ABCs
  • Constantly condemning yourself
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Describe the therapeutic relationship in REBT.

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  • Active: therapist talks a lot
  • Directive: therapist teaches skills and leads activities
  • Confrontational
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3 components of unconditional acceptance

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  • Must accept the self (imperfections)
  • Must accept others (imperfections)
  • Must accept life (the ups and downs)
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Difference between a “want” and a “demand.”

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  • Want: desire that you are ok with not getting
  • Demand: facing distress when you don’t get what you want
  • Wanting means you are able to tolerate frustration
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Healthy or unhealthy: rage

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Unhealthy. Client is not able to tolerate distress and takes it out on the environment.

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Temporary solution to demandingness: satisfaction of demands

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Just because a demand isn’t satisfied now doesn’t mean it’s never satisfied. Your demands can’t always be met.

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Temporary solution to demandingness: distraction

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The redirecting of attention is temporary and can be harmful (i.e. drugs/alcohol).

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Temporary solution to demandingness: magic + mysticism

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Uses beliefs that there is a magical fix and puts demands on the therapist

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Healthy or unhealthy: sadness

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Healthy. Able to internally experience the emotion at a stable level.

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Healthy or unhealthy: annoyance

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Healthy. Can keep the emotion internal and at a regulated level.

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Healthy or unhealthy: anxiety

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Unhealthy. Incessant worrying about melodramatic things.

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Healthy or unhealthy: disappointment

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Healthy. Can feel internally without an outburst.

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Healthy or unhealthy: regret

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Healthy. Can feel internally and then move on.

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Healthy or unhealthy: jealousy

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Unhealthy. Everyone is imperfect and jealousy indicates self-condemning behavior.

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2 main goals of REBT

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  • Correct demandingness: recognize “musturbation”, irrational demands, and give up perfectionism
  • Develop high frustration tolerance: accept reality even when grim, stop catastrophizing, develop coping and self-soothing skills
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Healthy or unhealthy: depression

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Unhealthy. Sadness to an extreme level.

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Healthy or unhealthy: concern

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Healthy. Can be felt at stable levels.

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Healthy or unhealthy: frustration

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Healthy. Indicates the ability to tolerate hard situations.

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Healthy or unhealthy: guilt

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Unhealthy. Indicates self-condemnation.

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ABCDs model to dispute irrational beliefs (IADA)

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  • Identify the activating event, belief, and consequence
  • Ask: does this serve me?
  • Dispute: dispute irrational, awfulizing, absolutist beliefs
  • Admit and face: admit to the role you play in reindoctrinating yourself
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What are some ways that the therapist helps the client address musts?

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  • Role play: play out the demand from different perspectives
  • Humor: highlight how absurd the irrational demands are
  • Unconditional acceptance: to demand perfection is irrational
  • Strong disputing: actively disagree and try to persuade the client
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Experiential exercise: take risks

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  • Do the things that make you the most scared
  • Knowing when there is room for imperfection
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Experiential exercise: seek pleasure

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Are there opportunities to enjoy a meh situation and be optimistic?

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Experiential exercise: stay in poor circumstances

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This helps the client practice tolerance

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Experiential exercise: take on hard tasks

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Teaches clients that it’s ok to be imperfect and struggle a little

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What is disputing?

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  • Challenge the patient to defend themselves
  • Demonstrate logical fallacies
  • Show why irrational beliefs do not work
  • Reduce irrational beliefs to absurdity
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Treatment modalities for REBT

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  • Individual
  • Group
  • Workshops
  • Marriage/family therapy
  • Self-help
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Evidence base for REBT

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  • Techniques that work: active-directive approach, activity-oriented HW, modifying beliefs can help propel behavior change, acceptance-based approaches
  • Findings: cognition, emotion, and behavior occur simultaneously and interdependently
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Cultural considerations for REBT

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Therapists must dispute the belief that one must achieve conformity with a certain culture.

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Simple exclamatory sentences

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Absolutist sentences/determinations that we say to “musturbate”

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Optimal therapy characteristics

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  • Time and effort (should be brief)
  • Rapid symptom reduction
  • Lasting results (concern he has about other therapies is not stopping reindoctrination)
  • Generalizable
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Methods of psychotherapy

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  • Help the client develop healthy levels of negative emotions
  • Directly tell the client what is wrong and try to persuade them

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