Final: REBT

Question 1

REBT: Performance Vs. Personhood

Answer 1

○ Self-worth is not contingent on performance, degrees, trophies, possessions, titles, money, behavior, or the judgment of anyone. Worth is intrinsic to you as a human being (personhood) distinguished from all other forms of life
○ The person is not their behavior

Question 2

REBT: Primary Focus

Answer 2

○ REBT focuses on helping people identify, evaluate, (Dispute) and modify dysfunctional cognitions
○ Thoughts, emotions, behaviors are interrelated, it views evaluating and changing thoughts as most effective route toward change of all three areas

Question 3

REBT: Similarities between Ellis and Beck (or their approaches)

Answer 3

○ They both emphasize thoughts as leading to emotions and behaviors
○ Both try to make changes in the client’s belief system
○ Ellis–Irrational beliefs–uses ABCDEF method to challenge irrational beliefs of all types
○ Beck–cognitive distortions, using different methods for challenging distortions

Question 4

REBT: Cognitive Triad

Answer 4

○ Cycle of: ​negative​ views about ​the world​; ​negative​ views about ​the future​; ​negative​ views
about ​oneself

Question 5

REBT: View of Psychopathology

Answer 5

○ Irrational beliefs are the source of people’s disturbances

○ People have a biological tendency towards thinking dysfunctionally and believe life should go their way

○ Irrational beliefs/thinking:
■ Self destructive, avoidance of thought, procrastination, self-blame, endless repetition of mistakes
■ Self downing; hostility and rage; ​(self-criticism)
■ low frustration tolerance
■ Absolute musts and shoulds
■ Awfulizing; I-can’t-stand-its; damnation; all-ness/overgeneralization
■ Self-demanding/other-demanding/world-demanding