REBT Flashcards
- Cognition and behavior
- Emphasizes thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing,
and doing. - Creating and maintaining unconditional acceptance of
one’s self, others, and life. - Cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact significantly and have a reciprocal cause-and-effect
relationship.
Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy
Identifies negatives to minimize,
transform, and heal them, and in doing so, it focuses primarily on what is encouraging, positive, and healthy.
Realistic optimism
Proponent of REBT
Albert Ellis
3 basic musts (or irrational beliefs) we internalize that inevitably lead to self-defeat
- “I must do well and be loved and approved by others.”
- “Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well.”
- “The world and my living conditions must be comfortable,
gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life.”
5 components of Cognitive ABC Model
Adversity
Irrational belief
Emotional and behavioral consequences
Disputation
New effective rational belief
Assumptions on human behavior (3)
Rigid and extreme beliefs
Repetition of early-indoctrinated irrational beliefs
Emotions are mainly created from our beliefs
Ways of developing maladaptive behaviour (3
Significant others during childhood
Our own repetition of early-indoctrinated beliefs
Environment, past experiences, and societal norms
Cognitive process that is believed to enable control over one’s own cognitive and physiological states
Autosuggestion
Maladaptive Behaviors (REBT) (6)
● Unhealthy emotions
● Procrastination
● Aggression
● Self-sabotaging actions
● Unhealthy eating pattern
● Obsessive thoughts
3 goals of REBT regarding acceptance
Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA)
Unconditional Other-Acceptance (UOA)
Unconditional Life-Acceptance (ULA)
Different modalities (REBT) (4)
Cognitive
Behavioral
Emotive
Interpersonal
Clients dispute a particular
“must”, “absolute”, “should” or “ought” until they no longer hold
that irrational belief, or at least until it is diminished in strength.
Disputing Irrational Belief
Their comment in this form can focus on therapy sessions as they critically evaluate the disputation
of their belief.
REBT Self-Help Form
Work in the therapy sessions
can be designed so that out-of-session tasks are feasible and the client has the skills to complete these taks.
Doing cognitive homework
The advantages include cost-effectiveness, widespread availability, and the potential of
reaching a broad spectrum of populations.
Bibliotherapy
REBTS rests on the premise
that imprecise language is one of the causes of distorted thinking processes.
Changing One’s Language
Integral components that help clients understand the relationship between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Psychoeducational methods
5 cognitive methods
Disputing Irrational Belief
Doing Cognitive Homework
REBT Self-Help Form
Bibliotherapy
Changing One’s Language
These techniques tend to be vivid and evocative in nature and their purpose is to dispute clients’ irrational beliefs.
Emotive Methods
3 types of emotive method
Humor
Role Playing
Shame - Attacking Exercises
It helps lighten people’s moods and increase their ability to look at their
situations differently.
It can also help people take a step back from the intensity of their emotions and be open to exploring
different ways of looking at things.
Humor
Allows the client to practice new
behaviors or responses to situations that evoke negative
emotions.
Ex: you can facilitate this with a socially anxious patient to help them practice assertiveness and build confidence in social situations.
Role Playing
The exercises are aimed at
increasing self-acceptance and mature responsibility, as well
as helping clients see that much of what they think of as being
shameful has to do with the way they define reality for themselves
Shame - Attacking Exercises
This is a form of intense mental practice designed to establish new emotional patterns in place of disruptive ones by thinking in healthy ways.
Rational Emotive Imagery
