CHAPTER 5: RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
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Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), a theory of personality and a holistic method of
psychotherapy developed in the 1950s by clinical psychologist Albert Ellis - (ANSWER)holds that when a
highly charged emotional consequence (C) follows a significant activating event (A), event A may seem to
but does not actually cause C. Instead, emotional consequences are largely created by B—the
individual's belief system. When an undesirable emotional consequence occurs, such as severe anxiety,
this usually involves the person's irrational beliefs, and when these beliefs are effectively disputed (at
point D) by challenging them rationally and behaviorally, the disturbed consequences are reduced
History (lecture) - (ANSWER)Greek and Roman stoic philosophers
- People are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them
Alfred Adler (1930s)
-S-O-R theory (stimulus - organism - response)
-"Everything depends on Opinion"
-We determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations
Albert Ellis - (ANSWER)-reindoctrine themselves: other therapies can identify the cause of distress, but
they will keep having problems
-therapeutic style is confrontational
The main propositions of REBT - (ANSWER)1. People are born with a potential to be rational (self-
constructive) as well as irrational (self-defeating).
2. People's tendency to irrational thinking, self-damaging habituations, wishful thinking, and intolerance
is frequently exacerbated by their culture and their family group.
3. Humans perceive, think, emote, and behave simultaneously. They rarely act without implicit thinking.
4. Even though all the major psychotherapies employ a variety of cognitive, emotive, and behavioral
techniques, and even though any and all such therapies (including unscientific methods such as
superstitious rituals and witch doctoring) may help individuals who have faith in them, they are probably
not all equally effective or efficient.
, CHAPTER 5: RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
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ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
5. REBT emphasizes the philosophy of unconditional acceptance: specifically, unconditional self-
acceptance (USA), unconditional other acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life acceptance (ULA).
The main therapeutic propositions - (ANSWER)1. Rational emotive behavior therapists do not believe a
warm relationship between client and counselor is a necessary or a sufficient condition for effective
personality change, although it is quite desirable.
2. Rational emotive behavior therapy uses role-playing, assertion training, desensitization, humor,
operant conditioning, suggestion, support, and a whole bag of other "tricks." There appear to be two
basic forms of rational emotive behavior therapy: General REBT tends to teach clients rational or
healthful behaviors. Preferential REBT teaches them how to vigorously dispute irrational ideas and
unhealthful behaviors and become more creative, humanistic, scientific, healthily skeptical, and
realistically optimistic thinkers.
3. REBT holds that most neurotic problems involve unrealistic, illogical, self-defeating thinking and that if
disturbance-creating ideas are vigorously disputed by logicoempirical and pragmatic thinking, they can
be minimized.
4. REBT shows how activating events or adversities (A) in people's lives contribute to but do not directly
cause emotional consequences (C); these consequences stem from people's interpretations of the
activating events or adversities—that is, from their unrealistic and overgeneralized beliefs (B) about
those events.
5. Historically, psychology was considered a stimulus-response (S-R) science. An analogous concept was
introduced into psychology in the late 1800s by James McKeen Cattell, an American psychologist
studying with Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, Germany. In so doing, he launched an entirely different kind of
psychology known as idiographic psychology, in contrast to the nomothetic psychology that Wundt and
his students were working on. Wundt and his followers were looking for average behavior, or S-R
behavior, and were discounting individual variations. The truth w
The main differences between REBT and CT today - (ANSWER)-In its theory and practice, REBT strongly
holds the primacy of demandingness, specifically emphasizing *shoulds* and tacit *musts*. REBT
practitioners assume their clients practically always have explicit and implicit "musts" that contribute to
their emotional disturbances, and practitioners sometimes will quickly get to clients' core beliefs in the
first session.
-REBT emphasizes philosophizing more than CT does. It works to help people with disturbances make
profound life-enhancing ideational and philosophic change. It uses emotional-evocative techniques with
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), a theory of personality and a holistic method of
psychotherapy developed in the 1950s by clinical psychologist Albert Ellis - (ANSWER)holds that when a
highly charged emotional consequence (C) follows a significant activating event (A), event A may seem to
but does not actually cause C. Instead, emotional consequences are largely created by B—the
individual's belief system. When an undesirable emotional consequence occurs, such as severe anxiety,
this usually involves the person's irrational beliefs, and when these beliefs are effectively disputed (at
point D) by challenging them rationally and behaviorally, the disturbed consequences are reduced
History (lecture) - (ANSWER)Greek and Roman stoic philosophers
- People are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them
Alfred Adler (1930s)
-S-O-R theory (stimulus - organism - response)
-"Everything depends on Opinion"
-We determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations
Albert Ellis - (ANSWER)-reindoctrine themselves: other therapies can identify the cause of distress, but
they will keep having problems
-therapeutic style is confrontational
The main propositions of REBT - (ANSWER)1. People are born with a potential to be rational (self-
constructive) as well as irrational (self-defeating).
2. People's tendency to irrational thinking, self-damaging habituations, wishful thinking, and intolerance
is frequently exacerbated by their culture and their family group.
3. Humans perceive, think, emote, and behave simultaneously. They rarely act without implicit thinking.
4. Even though all the major psychotherapies employ a variety of cognitive, emotive, and behavioral
techniques, and even though any and all such therapies (including unscientific methods such as
superstitious rituals and witch doctoring) may help individuals who have faith in them, they are probably
not all equally effective or efficient.
, CHAPTER 5: RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
5. REBT emphasizes the philosophy of unconditional acceptance: specifically, unconditional self-
acceptance (USA), unconditional other acceptance (UOA), and unconditional life acceptance (ULA).
The main therapeutic propositions - (ANSWER)1. Rational emotive behavior therapists do not believe a
warm relationship between client and counselor is a necessary or a sufficient condition for effective
personality change, although it is quite desirable.
2. Rational emotive behavior therapy uses role-playing, assertion training, desensitization, humor,
operant conditioning, suggestion, support, and a whole bag of other "tricks." There appear to be two
basic forms of rational emotive behavior therapy: General REBT tends to teach clients rational or
healthful behaviors. Preferential REBT teaches them how to vigorously dispute irrational ideas and
unhealthful behaviors and become more creative, humanistic, scientific, healthily skeptical, and
realistically optimistic thinkers.
3. REBT holds that most neurotic problems involve unrealistic, illogical, self-defeating thinking and that if
disturbance-creating ideas are vigorously disputed by logicoempirical and pragmatic thinking, they can
be minimized.
4. REBT shows how activating events or adversities (A) in people's lives contribute to but do not directly
cause emotional consequences (C); these consequences stem from people's interpretations of the
activating events or adversities—that is, from their unrealistic and overgeneralized beliefs (B) about
those events.
5. Historically, psychology was considered a stimulus-response (S-R) science. An analogous concept was
introduced into psychology in the late 1800s by James McKeen Cattell, an American psychologist
studying with Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, Germany. In so doing, he launched an entirely different kind of
psychology known as idiographic psychology, in contrast to the nomothetic psychology that Wundt and
his students were working on. Wundt and his followers were looking for average behavior, or S-R
behavior, and were discounting individual variations. The truth w
The main differences between REBT and CT today - (ANSWER)-In its theory and practice, REBT strongly
holds the primacy of demandingness, specifically emphasizing *shoulds* and tacit *musts*. REBT
practitioners assume their clients practically always have explicit and implicit "musts" that contribute to
their emotional disturbances, and practitioners sometimes will quickly get to clients' core beliefs in the
first session.
-REBT emphasizes philosophizing more than CT does. It works to help people with disturbances make
profound life-enhancing ideational and philosophic change. It uses emotional-evocative techniques with
