Week 7 - Rational Emotive Behavior Technique Flashcards
Why did Ellis change the name from rational therapy to rational emotive therapy to finally rational emotive behavior therapy?
Because thinking, feelings, and behaviors go hand in hand and his approach began to incorporate more behavioral and feeling techniques.
What is the basis for REBT’s view on human nature?
We are fallible human beings who have the potential for rational or irritational thinking.
BLANK leads to healthy ways of living and results in people who unconditional acceptance of self, others, and of the way things are.
Rational thinking.
True or False: self-acceptance is different from self-esteem, which Ellis sees as an unstable process related to how others see us.
True
What tends to be the basis for the development of rational or irrational thinking?
Early child-rearing practices, family dynamics, societal influences, and innate biology.
What does REBT believe is mostly response for self-defeating emotions and dysfunctional behaviors?
One’s way of thinking.
Is long-winded examination of the past necessary?
No. Ellis said that he thought it could be harmful and inhibit progress toward change.
REBT can best be seen as a mixture of BLANK and BLANK?
Learning theory and existential-humanistic philosophy.
What are seven basic principles of REBT?
- Cognitions, not events, are the most important determinant of human emotion
- Irrational thinking leads to emotional distress.
- Distress is best dealt with by addressing irrational thinking
- Genetic and environmental factors are antecedents to irrational and rational thinking
- Strong emotions are a sign that a problem needs to be addressed
- Therapy should focus upon the continued and ongoing self-indoctrination of irrational thinking, not historical influences
- Although beliefs can be changed, changing one’s beliefs take work
What are the key concepts of REBT?
-Philosophical conditioning
-Unconditional acceptance
-Cognitive distortions
-Irrational and rational beliefs
-ABCDES of feelings and behaviors
-Using a rational, scientific approach of REBT
What are the REBT techniques?
-Demonstrating unconditional acceptance
-Teaching the REBT philosophy
-Being active and directive
-Challenging clients
-Demonstrating the ABCs of feelings and behaving
-Encouraging the Disputing of Dysfunctional Cognitions, Behaviors, and Emotions
-Using humor
What happens during the counseling process?
-Assessing the client’s situation and hypothesize how the ABCs apply
-Teaching the REBT philosophy
-Demonstrating how the client’s situation fits the REBT model
-Directing the change process
-Reinforcing change and terminating the relationship
REBT therapists believe that individual develops a way of understanding the world through their adherence to a unique BLANK generally developed early in life.
Philosophy
One’s BLANK, can support irrational beliefs that lead to emotional distress and dysfunctional behaviors or rational beliefs that lead to healthy ways of living in the world.
Philosophical conditioning; philosophies are non-deterministic in that they can be scrutinized, analyzed, and changed at any point in a person’s life.
True or False: REBT asserts that healthy functioning comes through acceptance of self, acceptance of others, and acceptance of life, even self, others or life circumstances are not what one would like them to be.
True.
Clients are encouraged and taught how to accept themselves and not do BLANK for their self-esteem.
Rely on others. Unconditional acceptance is very different from unconditional positive regard of person-centered therapy.
What is responsible for irrational thinking?
Cognitive distortions
What are some cognitive distortions?
-absolutistic musts and shoulds
-awfulizing
-i cant stand its
-demands (demanding that oneself or another act in a certain manner)
-people ratings (viewing a person as if they have all or none of a quality: good, bad, worthless)
It is not the event that causes us to feel poorly, it is how the event is what?
Filtered through our cognitive distortions
Ellis reduced his 12 irrational beliefs to three core irrational beliefs or core musturbatory or grandiose irrational beliefs which are?
- I must always be approved of and liked or loved by everyone
-You should always treat me well and the way I think you should
-Life should always be fair and just
What are the ABCDEs of feelings and behaviors?
A - Activating Event: The situation or event that occurs.
B - Belief: The thought or interpretation of the activating event, which can be rational or irrational.
C - Consequences: The emotional and behavioral response resulting from the belief.
D - Disputation: The process of challenging and questioning the irrational belief.
E - Effective New Response: The healthier thought and behavior that replaces the negative response based on a more rational belief.
Cognitive self-statements or beliefs that result in negative feelings, are always rooted in one or more of the 12 irrational beliefs or the three core beliefs and are also driven by BLANK
Cognitive distortions
Once the irrational belief is identified, the REBT therapist will dispute it to develop new effective responses. The result is what?
New rational beliefs that result in new consequences that are less stressful and healthier.
