Title: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Headings: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Core Irrational Beliefs
ABCDE Model of Emotional Disturbance
Disputing Irrational Beliefs
Disputing Irrational Beliefs Continued…
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Content: Ellis felt that by ignoring the role thinking played in emotional disturbance both psychoanalytic and behavior theory failed to explain how humans originally became disturbed and how they remained disturbed. The word “belief” means a conviction in the truth, actuality, or validity of something. So a belief is a thought with an emotional component (conviction) and a factual component (truth, actuality or validity). Beliefs can be either positive or negative. Having a negative belief is not necessarily a bad thing; however, when one believes in something that is false, a negative belief tends to become what Ellis called an “irrational” belief. Irrational beliefs are not friendly to happiness and contentment and are definitely unhelpful for getting one’s basic desires for love and approval, comfort and achievement or success met. Core Irrational Beliefs
Demandingness or Absolutism – inflexible, dogmatic, extreme beliefs signaled by words such as should, must, have to, and need to (e.g., “I should not be in pain” or “I should be able to do what I used to do”). This is not the kind of should as in “I should go to the store and get some milk,” but rather a should with a capital “S”, a demand. Demand for Love and Approval from nearly everyone one finds important
Demand for Success or Achievement in things one finds important
Demand for Comfort or nearly no frustration or discomfort.