Title: Rational emotive behavior therapy - Wikipedia
Headings: Rational emotive behavior therapy
Rational emotive behavior therapy
Contents
History
Theoretical assumptions
Beliefs about circumstances, and disputing the beliefs
Psychological dysfunction
Core beliefs that disturb humans
Rigid demands that humans make
Over-generalization
Secondary disturbances
Origins of dysfunction
Irrational beliefs
Other insights
Intervention
Applications and interfaces
Efficacy
Limitations and critique
Mental wellness
References
Further reading
External links

Content: The B s, irrational beliefs that are most important in the A-B-C model are explicit and implicit philosophical meanings and assumptions about events, personal desires, and preferences. The B s, b eliefs that are most significant are highly evaluative and consist of interrelated and integrated cognitive, emotional and behavioral aspects and dimensions. According to REBT, if a person's evaluative B, b elief about the A, a ctivating event is rigid, absolutistic, fictional and dysfunctional, the C, the emotional and behavioral c onsequence, is likely to be self-defeating and destructive. Alternatively, if a person's belief is preferential, flexible and constructive, the C, the emotional and behavioral c onsequence is likely to be self-helping and constructive. Through REBT, by understanding the role of their mediating, evaluative and philosophically based illogical, unrealistic and self-defeating meanings, interpretations and assumptions in disturbance, individuals can learn to identify them, then go to D, d isputing and questioning the evidence for them. At E, e ffective new philosophy, they can recognize and reinforce the notion no evidence exists for any psychopathological must, ought or should and distinguish them from healthy constructs, and subscribe to more constructive and self-helping philosophies. This new reasonable perspective leads to F, new f eelings and behaviors appropriate to the A they are addressing in the exercise. Psychological dysfunction
One of the main pillars of REBT is that irrational and dysfunctional ways and patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving are contributing to human disturbance and emotional and behavioral self-defeatism and social defeatism. REBT generally teaches that when people turn flexible preferences, desires and wishes into grandiose, absolutistic and fatalistic dictates, this tends to contribute to disturbance and upset. These dysfunctional patterns are examples of cognitiv