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.
REBT uses the BLANK method to help clients rationally examine their philosophical precepts and help clients identify irrational beliefs and their accompanying cognitive distortions
Socratic questioning
Through a philosophical discourse, clients are challenged to show evidence that their BLANK are true.
Irrational beliefs. Because this is an impossibility, clients have no recourse but to accept the irrationalist of their self-statements.
Once a client has accepted the BLANK of their beliefs, they can begin to replace irrational beliefs with rational ones and begin toe experiment with new ways behaving and feelings, so they can begin to live a healthier lifestyle.
Irrationality
REBT is BLANK approach to counseling, which means it teaches the individual more effective ways of living in the world and helps the individual learn about their psychological self.
Psychoeducational
What is demonstrating unconditional acceptance?
They are seen as a fallible human being. Allows the client to show unconditional acceptance toward the client at at the same time, recognize the inevitability of the fact as fallible human beings, people will seomtimes exhbit behaviors that are toxic for themselves and others.
True or False: a big part of REBT is to teach the philosophy/
True
What is the REBT philosophy?
-We are born fallible and have the potential for rational or irrational thinking
-Although the past may have affected us, we are not bound by it
-Because we are fallible, it is important to learn how to accept ourselves and other unconditionally and not berate ourselves or others for behaving in ways that cause emotional distress or dysfunctional behaviors
-The ABCS: cognitive distortion of events, and not the event itself, is what causes irrational thinking, dysfunctional behaviors, and negative feelings
-Irrational thinking is the result of our cognitive distortion, such as absolutitistic musts and shoulds, etc.
-Most of us have adopting one or more of the 12 irrational beliefs or three core irrational beliefs that are a result of our cognitive distortions
-We can adopt a new, more rational belief system that results in having appropriate feelings and functional behaviors
-Adopting a rational belief system will take practice, but we can overcome our past conditioning
Are listening and the use of empathy not critical tools for the REBT therapist?
No
When does challenging clients occur?
When therapists suggest to their clients that they examine their current way of understanding their thinking, feeling, and behavioral processes. If they belive change would be helpful, clients can choose to adopt more rational beliefs as well as healthier behaviors and feeligns.
What is a cognitive disputation?
As clients begin to realize it is not the event causing the feeling or behaviors but the belief about the event, they are calledupon to dispute the irrational beliefs that have been driving their emotional distress and dysfunctional behaviors.
Cognitive disputatuions involve what?
Helping clients challenge their existing irrational beliefs, and in this process the author suggest not using why questions and instead using questions that draw out the reasons for the person behaving the way that they do.
What are 3 types of disputations?
-Cognitive
-Behavioral
-Emotive
What is one kind of homework assignment often given to clients that encourage new ways of thinking?
Risk-taking behaviors
What is a shame attacking exercise?
Involves the purposeful acting out of a situation that might normally cause embarrassement.
What is rational emotive imagery?
Experiences the situation that is causing them upset. Then the client asks them to experience a different emotion.
It teaches a client that one can have control over one’s thoughts and ultimately over one’s emotions and behaviors.
How does client assessment happen?
-Use of standardized tests
-Biographical data inventories
-Client self-report
-Interviewing
Assessment process is ongoing , which allows the therapist to consider how the ABCs apply to the client’s situation.
Change can occur at what three levels?
Cognitive
Feeling
Behaviorial
When does change occur?
When clients can dispute their irrational thoughts, their dysfunctional behaviors, and their emotional distress, which leads to mre effective responses.
