REBT

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REBT

• Albert Ellis was born in 1913 into a Jewish
  family in Pittsburgh.
• Early in his life his family moved to NYC
• At age 5, he just about died
• At age 7, he was largely on his own and thought
  that most of his family was crazy
• His parents divorced when he was 12 he gave up
  his plans to be a Hebrew teacher

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REBT

• In 1947, he earned a PhD in clinical psychology
  from Columbia University
• Was a psychoanalyst until he started his own
  theory in 1955
• Wrote the book, Reason Emotion in Psychotherapy
  in 1962

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REBT

• People have 3 irrational beliefs
• I absolutely must be perfect. Otherwise, I am an
  inadequate worthless person
• People must treat me kindly fairly. Otherwise,
  they are evil must be punished.
• I must live a comfortable, unhassled enjoyable
  life. Otherwise, I cant stand it!

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REBT

• Counselors listen carefully for illogical or
  faulty statements from their clients and
  challenge these statements.
• A counselor does this while showing care
  concern, using humor helping the client solve
  difficult issues
• The primary focus is on helping people realize
  that they can live more rational and product lives

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Chap 10 - REBT

• Epictetus quote Men feel disturbed not by
  things, but the views which they take of them
• When the words must, should, ought, have to
  need are used, the person makes demands wishes
  think irrationally.
• Ellis formula is as simple as A-B-C

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REBT

• A Activating Event
• B Beliefs (thoughts) about the event
• C Consequences (feelings about the event, ones
  self, others the world)
• These beliefs (thoughts) can be positive,
  negative, neutral or mixed

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REBT

• Cognitive disputation the counselor uses direct
  questions, logical reasoning and persuasion. The
  use of why may be employed which is taboo in
  most theories
• Imaginal disputation the client imagines an
  upsetting situation, analyzes the irrational
  thoughts then reimagines the situation with the
  new modified thoughts

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REBT

• Behavioral disputation the client acts in ways
  that are opposite to their normal, irrational
  ways
• People should on themselves
• People engage in musterbation

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REBT

• Whiffenpoof Song
• I cannot have all my wishes filled
• Whine, whine, whine
• I cannot have every frustration stilled
• Whine, whine, whine
• Life owes me the things that I miss,
• Fate has to grant me eternal bliss!
• And if I must settle for less than this
• Whine, whine, whine