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REBT theoretical premise:
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assists individuals in ridding
their lives of inefficient, demanding thought patterns that lead to misery and
disappointment.
Associated
with Albert Ellis; therapeutic model that stresses reciprocal interactions
among cognition, emotion, and behavior.
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Five ways of learning irrational beliefs:
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1.
Direct experience
2.
Vicarious experience
3.
Direct instruction
4.
Symbolic logic: used representation (anger destroys parents’ marriage, child
concludes all anger is destructive and bad, and angry people are bad people)
5. Misinterpretation of cause and effect
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The ABC's of REBT:
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A: Activating event (starting point, not causal)
B: Beliefs (faulty when they make generalizations, reinforce
feelings of inadequacy, and so on)
C: Consequences: results of faulty beliefs (self-defeating
behaviors and feelings)
D: Disputing: the key therapeutic technique, in which counselor
challenges client’s faulty beliefs and assumptions.
E: Effect: intended result of application of REBT, a
cognitive change, rational thinking.
F:
Feeling: a new set of feelings, appropriate to situations.
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Triple Column technique:
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designed to detect irrational thoughts
and beliefs.
Column
1: Automatic Thought: I am dumb
Column
2: Cognitive Distortion: I should be able to be competent at everything at all
times
Column 3: Rational Response: I am human and do not have to
be perfect all the time.
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Ten irrational demands:
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1.
I must be loved and respected by everyone who knows me.
2.
I expect justice in the world, and cannot live in a world without it.
3.
I have no control over my own happiness; my happiness/unhappiness is dependent
upon external events
4.
I am a prisoner of my past and can never escape
5.
There must be a solution to every human problem
6.
The way to happiness is to enjoy yourself all the time
7.
Other people are happier and better adjusted than I am, and I need to be like
them
8.
I must express and vent my anger when ever I experience it
9.
The more isolated I am from others, the better I like it
10.
No matter how outlandish a thought or belief might seem, stick to it, because
you are right and everyone else is wrong.
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Three Musts
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1.
I must be thoroughly competent, adequate, achieving, and lovable at all times,
or else I am worthless.
2.
Others should treat me kindly and fairly at all times, or else they are evil,
rotten people who should be blamed, damned, and punished for their horrible
treatment of me.
3. The world must be exactly the way I want it to be, never too
difficult or frustrating. Otherwise, life is catastrophic and unbearable.
(like Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-good, Very Bad Day).
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Other techniques of REBT
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1.
Continuum (rating a negative feeling on a scale, then decreasing impact of that
feeling)
2.
Teaching ABC model
3.
Personal Discovery
4.
Self-exploration
5.
Positive Self-talk
6.
REBT self-help form
7.
Triple Column
8.
Humor
9.
Confronting
10.
Unconditional positive self-regard
11.
Forceful coping statements
12. Analogies and images
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RATE Model:
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Relationship-building
Assessment
Treatment
Evaluation
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