Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy

✍ Scribed by Windy Dryden;

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 167
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I The Distinctive theoretical features of REBT
1 Terminology and theory
From ‘belief’ to ‘attitude’
From ‘irrational’ to ‘rigid and extreme’ and ‘rational’ to ‘flexible and non-extreme’
From disputing to examining
From activating event to adversity
Notes
2 Post-modernism, relativism and other emphases: REBT’s distinctive theoretical heritage
Post-modernism and relativism
Phenomenological and Stoic emphases
Affective-experiential emphasis
Behavioural emphasis
Psychological interactionism
Responsible hedonism
Psychodynamic features
Constructivistic emphasis
Existential-humanistic emphasis
General semantics emphasis
Systemic emphasis
3 REBT’s distinctive ABC model
REBT’s ‘situational ABC’ model of psychological disturbance
REBT’s ‘situational ABC’ model of psychological health
Note
4 Rigid and extreme attitudes are at the core of psychological disturbance
Rigid attitudes
Extreme attitudes
Awfulizing attitudes
Discomfort intolerance attitudes
Devaluation attitudes
5 Flexible and non-extreme attitudes are at the core of psychological health
Flexible attitudes
Non-extreme attitudes
Non-awfulizing attitudes
Discomfort tolerance attitudes
Unconditional acceptance attitudes
6 Distinction between unhealthy negative emotions (UNEs) and healthy negative emotions (HNEs)
7 REBT’s key principle of emotional responsibility
Emotional responsibility can be accepted without blame
Taking emotional responsibility does not preclude others from being responsible for their behaviour
8 Explaining why clients’ inferences are highly distorted
9 Position on human worth
Conditional human worth
Unconditional acceptance of humans
Unconditional human worth
10 Distinction between ego and discomfort disturbance and health
Approach 1: Ego and discomfort disturbance and health
Ego disturbance and discomfort disturbance
Ego health and discomfort tolerance
Approach 2: Self-related, other-related and life-related disturbance and health
USA, UOA and ULA
SD, OD and LD
Approach 3: Disturbance and health matrices
The 3 × 2 disturbance matrix
The 3 × 2 health matrix
11 Focus on meta-psychological disturbance
Disturbed reactions at A; disturbed reactions at C: no inferential meaning
Inferences about disturbed reactions at A; disturbed reactions at C
Inferences about UNEs at A; disturbed reactions at C
Inferences about behaviours or action tendencies at A; disturbed reactions at C
Inferences about thoughts at A; disturbed reactions at C
Note
12 The biological basis of human disturbance
Human disturbance is ubiquitous
Ease in thinking in rigid and extreme ways
Psychological disturbance is taught less frequently than psychological health
Humans easily lapse, relapse and replace one disturbance-creating method with another
13 REBT’s position on the origin and maintenance of psychological problems
14 REBT’s position on psychological change
The importance of choice and ‘going against the grain’ in psychological change
When attitude change is not on the agenda
15 Position on good mental health
Personal responsibility
Flexibility and non-extremism
Scientific thinking and non-Utopian in outlook
Enlightened self-interest
Social interest
Self-direction
High tolerance of uncertainty
Strong commitment to meaningful pursuits
Calculated risk-taking
Long-range hedonism
Part II The distinctive practical features of REBT
16 The therapeutic relationship in REBT
Therapist warmth
Therapist acceptance
Informality
Humour
17 Position on case formulation
18 Psycho-educational emphasis
What do therapists teach clients in REBT?
How is this teaching delivered?
Emphasis on client learning
19 Dealing with problems in order: (i) disturbance; (ii) dissatisfaction; (iii) development
Disturbance before dissatisfaction
Disturbance before development
Dissatisfaction before development
20 Early focus on rigid and extreme basic attitudes (R/EBs)
21 Helping clients to change their rigid and extreme attitudes to flexible and non-extreme attitudes
Helping clients to detect their rigid and extreme attitudes
Helping clients to discriminate their rigid/extreme basic attitudes from their flexible/non-extreme attitudes
Helping clients to examine their attitudes dialectically
The use of logic in the dialectical examination of attitudes
22 Variety of therapeutic styles
The choice-based assessment and examining style
Using the choice-based method in assessing rigid and extreme attitudes and their healthy alternatives
Using the choice-based method in examining rigid and extreme attitudes and their healthy alternatives
23 REBT encourages clients to seek adversity when carrying out homework assignments, but does so sensibly
REBT discourages gradualism
24 Change is hard work and the use of therapist force and energy
Force and energy in change
Note
25 Emphasis on teaching clients general flexible and non-extreme attitudes and encouraging them to make a profound ...
If so few clients achieve profound philosophic change, why try to help them achieve it?
26 Compromises in therapeutic change
Inference-based change
Behaviour-based change
Changing the environment
27 When to use a change-based focus (CBF) and when to use an acceptance-based focus (ABF)
28 Focus on clients’ misconceptions, doubts, reservations and objections to REBT
Responding to misconceptions: an example
Doubts, reservations and objections to particular aspects of REBT theory and practice
29 Therapeutic efficiency
Brevity
Depth-centredness
Pervasiveness
Extensiveness
Thoroughgoingness
Maintaining therapeutic progress
Promotion of prevention
Note
30 Theoretically consistent eclecticism
Windy Dryden’s brand of eclectic REBT
Working alliance theory
Cognitive therapy
Experiential approaches
Mindfulness
Techniques that are avoided in REBT
Appendix A guide to the eight emotional problems and their healthy alternatives with adversities, basic attitudes ...
References
Index