Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
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Self Acceptance
REBT was developed to help clients who were unable to separate their own self worth from failures. Ellis believed that people who were unable to separate their intrinsic value from accomplishments or failures were more inclined to experience negative emotional issues than those who had unconditional self-acceptance. This form of cognitive therapy was to teach clients how to to see their own self value and courage them to self evaluate their strengths, weaknesses, thoughts and behaviors.
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Depression is constructed, not given. Therefore you can deconstruct it. ~paraphrase Ellis
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Ellis believed that focus needed to be put on thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and choices. He felt that emotional issues were a combination of life experiences and predisposed irrational thinking.
REBT has certain accepted concepts of: Optimistic view of human nature People's thoughts are responsible for creating emotional issues With hard work and practice people can change their irrational beliefs and resolve emotional issues. |
REBT - Focusing on the present was more important that swelling on past events. Classifying beliefs as rational or irrational. Rational beliefs are pragmatic, logical, and reality based. Irrational are evaluative and judgmental absolute views of self, others or circumstances and will use words like, should or must.
ABCDE Model of Interventions
A Activating event - Identify the external source of discomfort and what initiates the process of irrational thinking.
B Belief - how the person thinks about the activating event, rational or irrational C Consequences - consequences of the belief, do irrational thoughts lead to negative feelings which confirm more irrational thoughts. D Dispute - or debate the exploration of beliefs E New Rational EFFECT or belief - describing the desired outcome or the dispute in belief. |
Strategies of Dispute
1. Logical Dispute - identify magical thinking and jumps in logic
2. Empirical Disputes - to focus on accumulation of evidence 3.Functional Disputing - do beliefs get person what they want - focus on consequences 4. Rational alternative beliefs - finding possible alternative reasons for consequences Disputing Styles
1. Didactic - to inform or educate
2. Socratic - questioning to encourage reasoning 3. Metaphoric - use of analogies the client will understand 4. Humorous - puts irrational belief in a humours but non-hurtful context for the client to understand. |
Strategies - Cognitive, Behavioral, Affective and REI
Cognitive, behavioral and Affective techniques offer experimental homework assignments to maximize the clients positive outcome between sessions.
REI - Rational Emotive Imagery - 7 step process to reinforce positive thoughts through mental images:
1. Visualize an unpleasant activating event
2. Experience the unhealthy negative emotions
3. Changing the emotions
4. Examining the process
5. Repetition and practice
6. Reinforcing the goal
7. Generalization of skills
REI - Rational Emotive Imagery - 7 step process to reinforce positive thoughts through mental images:
1. Visualize an unpleasant activating event
2. Experience the unhealthy negative emotions
3. Changing the emotions
4. Examining the process
5. Repetition and practice
6. Reinforcing the goal
7. Generalization of skills
Limitations
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Strengths
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