REBT Flashcards
Who developed REBT? When? Why?
Albert Ellis developed REBT in the 1950s out of frustration with psychodynamic therapy
What does REBT propose is necessary for rational thinking?
- Flexible and non-extreme
- Practical
- Logical
- Reality-based
What are the explicit values of REBT?
Survival and enjoyment
What 3 insights does REBT purport to provide people with?
1) You mainly create your own emotional disturbances by the irrational beliefs you tell yourself
2) No matter when you started to disturb yourself, if you are upset today, you are still some believing some irrational dogmatic beliefs
3) To eliminate your emotional difficulties, there is no way but work and practice
What is the ABCDE of REBT?
- Activating event
- Beliefs
- Consequences
- Disputation
- (New) Emotional effect
REBT stroke example - what were the assessment and expectation beliefs?
Assessment - “I’ve lost the use of my left side”
Expectation - “I should be able to use my left side”
REBT - what were the evaluation beliefs?
Low frustration tolerance (LFT) - “I can’t stand it”
Self-downing - “I’m useless”
Catastophising - “It’s the end of the world, it’s awful”
What are the Attitudes and Beliefs Scale-2 Abbreviated Version (ABS2-AV) subscales?
Irrational beliefs
- Demandingness beliefs
- Catastrophising beliefs
- LFT beliefs
- Depreciation beliefs
Rational beliefs
- Preference beliefs
- Non-catastrophising beliefs
- High frustration tolerance beliefs
- Acceptance beliefs
How might REBT be better than CBT in the context of stroke?
REBT focuses more on challenging cognitions at the expectation and evaluation stages, rather than the assessment stage (e.g., “I’ve lost the use of my left side”)
What is one of the limitations of the ABS2-AV?
Not a good measure of rational beliefs. Only a good measure of irrational beliefs
What are the 5 factors of the Irrational Beliefs Inventory (IBI)?
- Worrying
- Rigidity
- Problem avoidance
- Demand for approval
- Emotional irresponsibility
What’s the difference between healthy negative emotions (HNE) and unhealthy negative emotions (UNE)?
HNE are reasonable for the situation at hand.
UNE are unreasonable for the situation at hand. They lead to:
- Psychic pain and discomfort
- Self-defeating behaviour
- Block goals
- Lead to further dysfunctional thinking
What is the proposed difference between REBT and CBT?
- In REBT, demandingness beliefs (i.e., wanting things to be different to the way they are) lie at the core of emotional disorders
- In CBT, depreciation beliefs lie at the core of emotional disorders
Draw the basic REBT and CBT models
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What are the 10 common irrational beliefs?
- I must be like/loved/approved of by everyone in my love
- Must be competent, make no mistakes and achieve all the time if I’m considered worthwhile
- Some people are bad/wicked/evil and should be punished for this
- It’s dreadful/the end of the world when things don’t go how I want them to go
- My feelings are out of my control so there’s nothing I can do about them
- If something is dangerous/unpleasant/frightening, then I should worry a lot about it
- It is easier to put something difficult off than to face it
- I need to depend on someone stronger than myself
- My problems were only caused by things that happened in the past
- I should be very upset by other people’s problems
