Interventional Skills: Active Listening

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) foundation says that the way people make assumptions about themselves and the world around them influences their emotions and behavior. (McLeod, 2008) Sometimes these assumptions may impact people negatively because they are not rational ways to view aspects of life. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of what REBT is, its obstacles, how to deal with those obstacles, and the effectiveness of this therapy.

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.

I was torn between a few different theories and rational emotive behavior therapy has been the third theory I have been contemplating. This theory is based on the idea that individuals are born with the ability to think rationally or irrationally and “though they have an inborn prosperity towards growth and actualization, human beings can readily sabotage their growth by their unrealistic, illogical, and other types of defeatist thinking” (Capuzzi & Gross, 2011, P. 239). I believe that individuals can sabotage their growth, but I also believe that most individuals are unaware of how their unconscious play a role in the tension that the individual may feel. The A-B-C model and the replacing irrational beliefs with rational alternatives, are two things I have used in the past, but I believe to truly help the client, the counselor must analyze and interpret the client’s unconscious to change the dysfunctional behavior. I was also explored reality / choice and person-centered theory, but felt like I was missing something from the

For a start, I just want to give you some constructive criticism/positive feedback on your SOCW 6392 aging population class. As a student, I have observed your meticulous teaching strategies and active listening skills. I truly appreciate your classroom rules and how you quickly check someone (put them in their place) if they try to step out of line. With a structured class, students are able to stay focused on the course materials and are less likely to get distracted/off topic than when in unstructured/unorganized settings.

This book is intended for students, researchers, therapists and anyone interested in the psychotherapy field. It’s a guide for every therapist who works with children as it gives therapeutic insight

Change of the client’s personal experience is imperative in the early stages of therapy it is also reliable in predicting if the therapist is right for the client and the right treatment plan is utilized, (Duncan, Miller, & Sparks, 2004) high outcome is interrelated with client’s giving real-time feedback (Miller, Duncan, Brown, Sorrell, & Chalk, 2006).

Active listening is very important to me in communicating with your client. You can get great answers and details with open-ended questions. Listening to body language is just as important as verbally communicating. Nonverbal cues are to be taken seriously and listened with an urge to act on any violent intentions. Paraphrasing or summarizing is the feedback clients, listening out for the therapist response. The client tells the therapist their situation and waits to see if he or

The current research paper will go into detail about the behavioral theory, REBT (Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy). REBT is a form of therapy that helps individuals replace negative thoughts into positive thoughts, this kind of therapy helps the individual acquire the necessary tools to obtain a healthier emotional well-being. Dr. Albert Ellis is the main contributor and founder of REBT and is known as one of the most influential psychotherapist and psychologist in history (Ellis, 1993). This research paper will go into detail about the individual’s behavior in counseling sessions, societal problems, solutions to the societal problem and future research as well as various examples of how REBT can help different individuals in various settings and of any age. The ABC model will also be explained and shown how it can be applied in REBT.

Treatment is delivered by a primary therapist who conducts both individual and group sessions. His/her tasks entail coordinating the delivery of the program, scheduling and maintaining patient retention in the program. Whenever possible, the co-leader, chosen by the therapist, who has observed at least 6 months of recovery is involved. The co-leader serves as a peer supporter who can share his or her own recovery experiences. The therapist, therefore, maintains control of the group, facilitates the session within a positive environment and ensures the delivery of its educational element. Therapists specifically avoid allowing confrontational or extremely emotional environment. Thus, encouraging input from patients

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).

Aaron Beck’s research on depression resulted in the development of an approach known as cognitive therapy. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) was being developed at the same time as REBT, however both the approaches function independently. The commonality REBT and CBT is that both are action oriented, directive and time- limited approaches that requires the client explicit identification of problems and situations. There were important underlying reason for the development of CBT is a need for phenomenological approach in psychology. That is, an approach that emphasises on the individual’s view of the self in relation the external world influences his/ her behaviour (Nelson – Jones, 2011).

Particular emphasis is placed on the therapeutic relationship, which provides a safe and trusting environment where the child has the opportunity of working through issues in collaboration

The second supervisor role is called counselor, where the supervisor can show the supervisee work though their own personal issues whether it be how well their skills are, along with how to present their cases. An example of this is where Michael talks about how he feels that he just doesn’t know what to do. The director in this case could talk to Michael and show him areas of is abilities how he knows to do a certain task with his clients well. Under this role of supervision, I think that intervention skills would fall under this role. Intervention skill is what the supervisee is doing in session that is observed by the supervisor. Example of this skill is that Michael can reflect on what the observer sees and get positive interventions where

As we have mentioned, cognitive behavioural theory is not a single theory. There are as many as 16 different theories associated with the cognitive behavioural model. Some of them include Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Rational Behavior Therapy, Rational Living Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Dialectic Behavior Therapy. Cognitive Therapy is a system of psychotherapy that attempts to reduce excessive emotional reactions and self-defeating behaviour, by modifying the faulty or erroneous thinking and maladaptive beliefs that underlie these reactions.- Beck According CBT can be thought of as a highly structured, evidence based-treatment that aims to address patient’s current problems. The treatment is goal oriented and goals are agreed between the patient and clinician usually in terms of improving the patient’s distressing emotional states and unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour. Here, each aspect of the of treatment is explicitly discussed. The treatment usually lasts 12-18 sessions which is short compared to techniques such as psychoanalysis that can last

Ellis (1957, 1962) was one of the first to use Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) which is a type of cognitive therapy that focuses on an outcome of changing irrational beliefs into more rational ones. From this stemmed the ABC Technique of Irrational Beliefs (Simplypsychology.org, 2017). This is a three-step process in which to analyse the how a person has developed irrational beliefs. The first step is Activating event, this is the recording of an event that in some way leads a form of high emotional response or negative dysfunctional thinking. The second is the person beliefs, where the client expresses their own negative thoughts that occurred. The last step is the consequence, which is to record the outcome of what happened in the situation after step A and step B occurred (Superpharmacy.com.au, 2017).