- Albert Ellis, Aaron Beck, Judith Beck, Donald Meichenbaum.
2. What are the basic assumptions underlying this approach?
- It emphasizes therapy as a learning process, including acquiring and practicing new skills, learning new ways of thinking, and acquiring more effective ways of coping with problems.
3. What are a few of the key concepts that are essential to this theory?
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is based on the assumption that everyone is born with a potential for both rational and irrational thinking. People learn irrational beliefs from their significant others during childhood. If we want to become psychologically healthy, we have to stop blaming ourselves and others and learn to fully and unconditionally accept ourselves despite our imperfections. ABC Framework is central to REBT, it provides a useful tool for understanding the client's feelings, thoughts, events, and behavior. A = the existence of a fact, an activating event, or an inference about an event, of an individual. C = is the emotional and behavioral consequence or reaction of the individual (can be either healthy or unhealthy). B = is the person's belief about A. A (the activating event) does not cause C (the emotional consequence). Instead B (person's belief about A) largely creates C (emotional reaction).
4. What do you consider the most important goals of this theory?
- Teaching clients how to separate the evaluation of their behaviors from the evaluation of themselves and how to accept themselves in spite of their imperfections. Help clients differentiate between realistic and unrealistic goals and also self-defeating and self-enhancing goals. A basic goal is to teach clients how to change their dysfunctional emotions and behaviors into healthy ones.
5. What role does the therapeutic relationship plays in terms of therapy outcomes?
- The therapist acts as a teacher and client as a student. The therapist is highly directive and teaches clients how to change their cognitions. It is a collaborative relationship, in which both parties need to work together to be effective.
6. What are a few of the techniques from this therapy model that you would want to incorporate into your counseling practice?
- I really like the use of homework assignments in this therapy. I believe that homework can be extremely effective in counseling sessions.
7. What are some of the ways that this theory is applied to client populations, settings, and treatment of problems?
- CBT has been very effective with depression and anxiety. It has been used with a wide range of client populations and a variety of problems.
8. What do you see as the major strength of this theory from a diversity perspective?
- The focus on teaching and learning tends to avoid the stigma of mental illness, which clients may value so they do not feel "bad" for going to therapy.
9. What do you see as a major shortcoming of this theory from a diversity perspective?
- Some clients may become dependent on the therapist to decide what is considered the appropriate way of doing things.
10. What do you consider to be the most significant contribution of this approach?
- I believe the most significant contribution of this approach is the fact that it incorporates techniques from other approaches.
11. What do you consider to be the most significant limitation of this approach?
- I believe the most significant limitation of this approach is that it tends to play down emotions and sometimes doesn't give enough weight to the client's past.
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