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DR. ALBERT ELLIS

He is best known for developing Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on identifying and challenging irrational beliefs and thoughts that contribute to emotional distress and dysfunctional behavior.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a style of short-term Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that was developed in the 1950s by a doctor named Albert Ellis

RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY (REBT)

is a clinical therapy type used to treat irrational thought patterns which lead to emotional or behavioral issues.

is a form of psychotherapy that helps you identify self-defeating thoughts and feelings, challenge the nature of irrational and unproductive feelings, and replace them with healthier, more productive beliefs.

ABC(DE) MODEL

A - Activating events. (Something happens in the environment

around you).

B - Belief you hold. (A belief you hold about the events or

situation).

C - Consequences. (The emotional response resulted due to your

beliefs).

D - Disputation. (When you dispute or question those beliefs)

E -Effective behavior. (When you have resisted irrational beliefs

and have changed your behavior).

THE THREE MUST OF IRRATIONAL THINKING

we internalize that

inevitably lead to self-defeat.

1. “I must do well and be loved and approved by others.”

2. “Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well.”

3. “The world and my living conditions must be comfortable,

gratifying, and just, providing me with all that I want in life.”

ROLE OF THE COUNSELOR

Counselors are direct and active in their teaching and correcting the client’s cognitions.

Ellies beliefs that a good REBT counselor must be bright, knowledgeable, empathetic, persistent, interested in helping others and use RET in their personal lives(Ellis, 1980).

GOALS OF THE THERAPY

The primary goal is to help people live rational and productive lives.

REBT helps people see that it is their thoughts and beliefs about

events that creates difficulties, not the events or the situations.

It helps the client to understand that wishes and wants are not

entitlements to be demanded. Thinking that involves the words must,

should, ought, have to, and need are demands, not an expression of

wants or desires.

REBT helps clients stop catastrophizing when wants and desires are not

met.