Albert Ellis Rebt

The concept of the theory that makes it the most appropriate for the client in the case study is Rational Emotive Behavioral. According to Nielsen, Ridley, and Johnson “REBT also bears a strong theoretical affinity with some religions because of its preferred therapeutic goal of helping clients examine and change their beliefs.” Therefore, Rational Emotive Behavior will help Ana not to feel depressed or anxious. It will help Ana with unhealthy feelings and behaviors. Rational Emotive Behavioral will help Ana identify the unwanted behavior and help her feel better. The frame work of Rational Emotive Behavior assumes that individuals have rational and irrational tendencies. Irrational are thoughts that prevent from meeting the goals. Irrationals are also thoughts that lead to conflict and to unhealthy behavior. A rational thought leads to accomplishing goals that lead to success. Ana is currently depressed and anxious and the rational emotive behavior will help Ana with the irrational tendencies she is experiencing.

According to Hayes, emphasis shifted towards exploration of one’s interpretation of the world and interpretation of emotionally relevant situations, and shapes experience. This second generation of developments included rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) developed by Albert Ellis, and Beck and colleagues’ cognitive therapy.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (also known by its abbreviation CBT) was primarily developed through an integration of behavior therapy (first popularized by Edward Thorndike) with cognitive therapy (developed by Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis). The first discrete, intentionally therapeutic approach to CBT to be developed was Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), which was originated by Albert Ellis, Ph.D. in the mid-1950's. Ellis developed his approach in reaction to his disliking of the in-efficient and in-directive nature of Psychoanalysis. The philosophic origins of RET go back to the Stoic philosophers, including Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. While rooted in rather different

In the cognitive behaviour approach to counselling the use of potential outcomes of cognitive behaviour therapy, looking at the fact that there are emotional disorders that result from negative thoughts and thinking on unrealistic terms, and this in time can be altered by changing the unrealistic terms and negative thoughts to positive thoughts and realistic ideas. Rational emotional therapy is there to assist the client to make enlightened changes to themselves. In 1962 Ellis stated that “ human thinking and emotions are, in some of their essences, the same thing, and that by changing the former one does change the latter ( Dryden 2001). This would let the client to give up the demands of their own psyche, others and the world, and change it to suit their choices and to allow themselves to accept themselves for who they really are. If the counsellor can get the client to do this, they can experience healthy negative emotions such as sadness, concern and disappointment, while still retaining their desires, wishes and needs. The client will rarely experience unhealthy

In it's simplest form, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, (or CBT as it will be referred to from here on out), refers to the approach of changing dysfunctional behaviors and thoughts to realistic and healthy ones. CBT encompasses several types of therapy focusing on the impact of an individual's thinking as it relates to expressed behaviors. Such models include rational emotive therapy (RET), rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), behavior therapy (BT), Rational Behavior Therapy (RBT), Schema Focused Therapy, Cognitive therapy (CT). Most recently a few other variations have been linked to CBT such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectic behavioral therapy (DBT), and

CBT was first described by Professor Aaron Beck in the early 1950’s (Wilding & Milne, 2008). In contrast with many of the psychological therapy models of the time, CBT was based on the belief that maladaptive thoughts and behaviours arise not from what has happened in our lives, but from how we think about what has happened to us (Taylor, 2006; Newman, 2013). A variety of approaches are considered to fall within the domain of CBT – these include Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (Dryden, 2009), Beck’s CBT approach, and Meichenbaum’s Cognitive Behaviour Modification (Meichenbaum, 1977) These approaches share 3

Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy is a type of CBT. It centres around the fact that it is not the life event that effects our behaviour, but rather our view on the event that governs our reaction. If we can change a faulty belief system then we can change the behavioural consequence ( react differently).

A major focus will be on the rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), while incorporating other behavioral and cognitive techniques relevant in supporting Jane (Corey, 2005) A cognitive counsellor would facilitate a guided discovery and Socratic dialogue to gather information about past events (Weiten et al., 2009). Therefore, signaling evidence of potential cognitive distortions Jane has learnt and integrated that may have established rigid and unrealistic thoughts patterns. Hence, the goal is to replace these distortions with constructive automatic thoughts and core schemas by obtaining new ways to think and behave (Weiten et al., 2009). A counsellor would help Jane to identify cognitive distortions that contribute to behavioral problems and

Furthermore, the rational emotive therapy looks more at the present of client, identify the self-defeated thoughts, and devaluated talks that the client project during her session. The purpose was to target those unwanted negative self-talks and challenge them to rethink those and loos for positive self-talks.

The core belief of RBT is: ‘We are disturbed not by things, but by the views that we take of them.’, which means that we are disturbed not by thing or event itself but by how we feel about it our emotion. The founder of REBT believes, that we need to change our belief system in order to deal with emotional

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) best fits my personal beliefs and values. REBT as a guiding theory will allow me to improve on innate skills and abilities that are consistent with the theory's conceptual foundation. Based on my personal beliefs and values concerning the way in which people learn and grow, REBT best fits.  For instance, REBT believes that the role of the counselor is to provide unconditional acceptance.  I believe that people will only grow in an environment of unconditional acceptance and patient understanding.  As previously stated, self-acceptance is difficult to achieve for some people.  Therefore, some client's will need to learn the tools to grow self-acceptance.  Unconditional acceptance will allow a person

REBT is a form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and was invented by Ellis in 1955 after he found out some pitfalls in psychoanalytic theory such as the ridiculous amount of time spent to get the clients getting their insight into their problems that has been practiced among therapist during his time. REBT theory was mainly expected to be more active-directive approach as he focused on verbalizing to his clients what he thought to be the clients’ assured insight.

I believe that every one has different problem, because every one has different beliefs. Therefore, solving our problems should be connecting with our beliefs. Rational emotive behavior therapy is one of my favorite counseling theories because it helps the clients to change their feeling acting via change the client thought.

The father of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is Albert Ellis. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1913, New York became Dr. Ellis’ home since his family move there when he was four years old. Ellis struggled with health problems and physical ailments from childhood until his death in 2007. As a child, Ellis survived on his own as his parents were absent. His father was a traveling business person and his mother was emotionally absent (Albert Ellis Institute, 2012). The foundation of REBT developed when a youthful Ellis utilized a philosophy of viewing life to deal with his physical and family issues (Corey, 2013).

The Cognitive Behavioural approach to therapy sees the client-therapist relationship as a collaborative effort to identify disturbances in the client’s cognitive processes and to then transform these processes to create beneficial changes in thought and behaviour (Corey, 2013). Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a structured therapy whereby the therapist may take a direct approach in collaborating with the client to set goals and create a therapeutic agenda (Josefowitz & Myran, 2005). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy makes use of an array of interventions which promote skills within the client to facilitate self-directed change (Josefowitz & Myran, 2005). Rational Emotive Behaviour