REBT

to survive, be free from pain, be reasonable satisfied

fundamental goal

rational living

helps to acheive goals

musturbations

primary demanding beliefs

miserable about misery

secondary demanding beliefs

ego disturbance

‘i must be…’

leading to inadequacy

low frustration tolerance

‘things must be…’

biological tendencies

social learning

choosing irrational cognitions

acquisition of dysfunction

biological tendencies

short-range hedonism

insufficient scientific thinking

thinking lacks flexibility, too absolutist

emphasising one’s godawful past

focusing on past instead of present, reindoctrination

reinforcing consequnces

operant conditioning - maintaining dysfunction

inelegant change goals

symptom removal, new philosophy focused on specific issues

elegant change goals

new philosophy for life, anti-musurbatory thinking, unconditional acceptance

active-directive structured therapy

what type of therapy REBT

functional, logical, empirical, philosophical, rational coping statements, cognitive homework

cognitive techniques

rational emotive imagery

A technique used in cognitive-behavioral therapy to challenge irrational beliefs by vividly imagining the feared outcome and reframing it with a more rational perspective.

role playing

rehearse behaviours, work through irrational beliefs

humour

take things less seriously

shame attacking

do something shameful, refuse to feel ashamed, realisation and self acceptance

assignments challenging demandingness

do feared behaviour, convince self the consequence is not awful - floodingly

reinforcement

operatn conditioning