Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT)

This article offers strategies for teachers to use to help their most challenging students with behavioral issues. One of the authors is a child psychiatrist who works with at-risk children and the other is a behavior analyst and special educator. Their approach is based on the premise that educators can only control certain elements in the classroom and their own behavior when it comes to students with challenging behavior. The created the acronym FAIR:”F is for understanding the function of the behavior, A is for accommodations, I is for interaction strategies, and R is for responses” (2). The function of behavior can include escaping from something, obtaining a tangible thing, engaging in sensory activities, and getting attention. These functions are the benefits the student gets from the behavior. The escape motivated behavior happens when a student tries to avoid a “task, demand, situation, or person” (3). The tangible behavior occurs when the student wants to get objects like money or feed or something else they want. Sensory behavior happens when a student tries to get the attention of an adult or classmate. This can occur when the student is “bellergent, screaming, or continually interrupting the teacher” (3). Negative attention can reinforce attention-seeking behavior because it is better than nothing and the student may prefer it because it is more predictable than positive attention. Taking ABC

Behavioral therapy is congruent with the Jones’ family case, because of the self-instructional training aspect of the therapy. Additionally, I have decided to use the method of consciousness-raising with Mr. Jones as to minimally confront him to direct him into realizing his responsibility to be emotionally healthy and stable as the head of his household. I want to assist Bobby with self-control of his behavior at school. This aspect of behavior therapy combined with motivational interviewing, I believe, will help Bobby to see the problem with his behaviors at school and how he can control them or choose more productive behaviors. The motivational therapy, through effective questioning, will guide Bobby toward expressing his feelings and how those feelings are connected his outward behaviors as to encourage self-directed change. Bobby is in Piaget’s pre-operational stage of cognitive

While Reading the book, Lost at School, written by Ross W. Greene, one can appreciate the clear focus and overall direction for teaching different students with maladaptive behaviors. For teachers, those children present the greatest obstacle in education. A student’s mental health problems allude to the challenges in teaching. It’s hard enough to keep a large group of adolescents on task in the first place, let alone when there may be one or more children with maladaptive behaviors in a single class, who have a hard time regulating their focus levels like the typical student. The number of disruptive students has seemingly increased through the years. Now studies show that, “About 10 percent of the school population—9 to 13 million children—struggle with mental health problems. In a typical classroom of 20, chances are good that one or two students are dealing with serious psychosocial stressors relating to poverty, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, trauma, or a psychiatric disorder. These children represent the most challenging students in our classrooms today.” (Rappaport and Minahan) To combat those alarming statistics, Ross Greene’s informational book talks about how to improve a child’s behavior, while embracing the patience it takes to effectively communicate with such children.

Building upon not only the intellectual achievement, but also the self-esteem of black students can also help strengthen their achievement. Many studies have revealed that high self-esteem is strongly correlated with subsequent achievement orientation and upward mobility (Hill, 1999). The attitude of significant others (parents, peers, and teachers) toward a child is an important source of self-esteem among black children (Taylor 1976; Gibbs 195; Hill 1999). In school, teachers can encourage interaction between themselves and the students, as well as the students among each other.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this DQ. As always, I enjoyed reading your perspective. I wanted to comment on a couple of points you made. First comment I want to mention is your statement “I believe that many educators feel that if they can get a child’s behavior under control, they will then in turn be able to move on and focus on academics. This is typically why the focus is primarily on controlling inappropriate behavior.” I agree with you on this. I believe that initially, teachers with students with EBD feel that they can easily or quickly control a student’s unwanted behavior to the point where it does not effect his or her academic instruction. However, as we learned from our reading this can be just the

This intervention is a group intervention that youths (grade 6-9) to understand their anger and develop their emotion regulation skills or students who have emotional behavioral disability. The strength of this intervention is to encourage students to become aware of their feeling of anger, frustration, and other feelings associate with anger such as shame and guilt, sadness, and loneliness. The intervention helps

Participants: M. Parker, Guidance Counselor, B. Michael, Social worker, Parent, D. Shaw Principal, S. Roberts, Behavioral Consultant, Classroom Teachers; D. Chemnitz and C. Ragusa

conduct to meet the expectations of the classroom. However, “ ...findings expound on the fact that there is an increase in the number of mainstreamed students who are diagnosed with emotional behavior disorders (EBD) and that teachers are not always trained to deal

So educators have developed a three-tiered model for helping those students with emotional and behavioral disturbances learn to cope with the symptoms (Magyar, 2012). The first tier of the model is helping the student learn classroom survival skills training and supports. Also listed under the first tier is schedules and visual support (Magyar, 2012). The second tier of the model explains coping skills, social problem solving, and self-regulation training for the students in the classroom (Magyar, 2012). The last tier of the model includes individualized behavior support plan, EBD services (emotional/behavior disorders), and wraparound services (Magyar,

There is a great misconception regarding the term emotional behavioral disability. Many people think of this disorder as nightmare scenarios where students with learning or behavioral disabilities act upon their thoughts or ideas, causing violence and even injury to others and/or themselves. However, studies have shown that students with EBD are more prone to suffer from abuse and violence, rather than to inflict abuse or be violent themselves. Still, disciplining students, and more specifically, those who suffer from serious or chronic behavioral disorders, tends to be a challenge for both educators and parents. When a student has been diagnosed with emotional behavioral disability, it is necessary to find a balance between the needs of

The Research problem: African American male students in the 8th grade classrooms and the challenges that they face. However, many of the most theoretically and practically important questions have yet to be answered. For instance, few studies have examined the joint influences of racial identity and self-esteem on African American adolescents’ in the classroom (Mandara, Richards, Gaylord-Harden, & Ragsdale 2009). In the United States, African American adolescents disproportionately attend large, urban, comprehensive schools that

Selecting and implementing Social Emotional Learning programs should follow after a consideration of ‘school needs, goals, interests and mandates; staff skills, workload and receptiveness; pre-existing instructional efforts and activities; the content and quality of program materials; its developmental and cultural appropriateness to the range of recipient student populations; and its acceptability to parents and community members (Novick, Kress & Elias, 2002).’ Social Emotional Learning efforts are implemented and it

Students with emotional and behavioral disorder (EBD) exhibit various characteristics relevant to their identified diagnosis. The primary characteristic of students with EBD is problem behaviors are displayed at school, home, community, and other social settings. These problem behaviors are described professionally as externalizing and internalizing behaviors that students with EBD often engage in regularly. Externalizing behaviors are described as acting-out behaviors that are aggressive and/or disruptive that is observable as behaviors directed towards others. Internalizing behaviors are behaviors that are construed as acting-in behaviors such as anxiety, fearfulness, withdrawal, and other indications of an individual's mood or internal

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 aim of this essay is to briefly support the fact that Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) theory and practice can be actively used to help children and adolescents. To commence this essay, REBT theory will be explained and discussed along with the supportive past studies. This essay will try to generate the argument whether or not REBT proposed by Albert Ellis be widely used by the therapists to help children and adolescents and maintain the best service on its own as some studies claimed that REBT was not relevant in certain conditions regardless of its beneficial factors.