Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features (CBT Distinctive Features)

✍ Scribed by Windy Dryden

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 156
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) encourages the client to focus on their emotional problems in order to understand, challenge and change the irrational beliefs that underpin these problems. REBT can help clients to strengthen conviction in their alternative rational beliefs by acting in ways that are consistent with them and thus encourage a healthier outlook. This accessible and direct guide introduces the reader to REBT while indicating how it is different from other approaches within the broad cognitive behavioural therapy spectrum. Divided into two sections; The Distinctive Theoretical Features of REBT and The Distinctive Practical Features of REBT, this book presents concise, straightforward information in 30 key points derived from the author’s own experience in the field. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features will be invaluable to both experienced clinicians, and those new to the field. It will appeal to psychotherapists and counsellors, together with students and practitioners who are keen to learn how REBT can be differentiated from the other approaches to CBT.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part 1 THE DISTINCTIVE THEORETICAL FEATURES OF REBT......Page 14
1 Post-modern relativism......Page 16
2 REBT's position on human nature and other theoretical emphases: Distinctiveness in the mix......Page 20
3 REBT's distinctive ABC model......Page 28
4 Rigidity is at the core of psychological disturbance......Page 30
5 Flexibility is at the core of psychological health......Page 32
6 Extreme beliefs are derived from rigid beliefs......Page 34
7 Non-extreme beliefs are derived from flexible beliefs......Page 38
8 Distinction between unhealthy negative emotions (UNEs) and healthy negative emotions (HNEs)......Page 46
9 Explaining why clients' inferences are highly distorted......Page 50
10 Position on human worth......Page 52
11 Distinction between ego and discomfort disturbance and health......Page 56
12 Focus on meta-emotional disturbance......Page 66
13 The biological basis of human irrationality......Page 70
14 Choice-based constructivism and going against the grain......Page 76
15 Position on good mental health......Page 78
Part 2 THE DISTINCTIVE PRACTICAL FEATURES OF REBT......Page 82
16 The therapeutic relationship in REBT......Page 84
17 Position on case formulation......Page 88
18 Psycho-educational emphasis......Page 92
19 Dealing with problems in order: (i) Disturbance; (ii) Dissatisfaction; (iii) Development......Page 96
20 Early focus on iBs......Page 100
21 Helping clients to change their irrational beliefs to rational beliefs......Page 102
22 Use of logical arguments in disputing beliefs......Page 106
23 Variety of therapeutic styles......Page 112
24 Discourages gradualism......Page 116
25 Change is hard work and the use of therapist force and energy......Page 118
26 Emphasis on teaching clients general rational philosophies and encouraging them to make a profound philosophic change......Page 122
27 Compromises in therapeutic change......Page 126
28 Focus on clients' misconceptions, doubts, reservations, and objections to REBT......Page 130
29 Therapeutic efficiency......Page 136
30 Theoretically consistent eclecticism......Page 140
References......Page 146
Index......Page 150