Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy: Josemon P.George V Mba (PT)
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy: Josemon P.George V Mba (PT)
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy: Josemon P.George V Mba (PT)
BEHAVIORAL
THERAPY
JOSEMON P.GEORGE
V MBA(PT)
Rational Emotive Behavioral
Therapy
• A form of cognitive-behavioral therapy in
which somebody is encouraged to examine
and change irrational thought patterns
(irrational thinking) and beliefs in order to
reduce dysfunctional behavior.
History
• REBT – developed by Alfred Ellis
• After two decades of practicing
psychoanalysis he became increasingly
disillusioned by the limited progress clients
were making
• 1957 published How to live with a Neurotic
• 1975 published A New Guide to Rational
Living which continues to be one of his
most popular books
• 1977 published Handbook of Rational-
Emotive Therapy
Current Status
• Albert Ellis institute established in 1959
teaches principles of healthy living
• Journal of Rational-Emotive Therapy and
Cognitive Behavior Therapy reports latest
findings
Personality
• Basic tenet of REBT is that emotional
upsets, as distinguished from feelings of
sorrow, regret, annoyance, and frustration,
largely stem from irrational beliefs
• Problematic beliefs center around
words/concepts like … should, ought,
awful, must, I want, I need …
• This is the basic personality theory of
REBT … Humans largely create their
own distress
View of Emotional Disturbance
• REBT views emotional disturbances as
the result of irrational thinking and
behaving.
• We learn irrational beliefs from significant
other during childhood
• REBT therapist teach clients to feel
“undepressed” even when they are
unaccepted and unloved by significant
others.
View of Emotional Disturbance
• Blame is at the core of most emotional
disturbances
• Irrational idea (e.g., I must be loved by
everyone) internalize self-defeating
• We have a tendency to make ourselves
emotionally disturbed by internalizing self-
defeating beliefs
• REBT hypothesizes that we keep ourselves
emotionally disturbed by the process of
self-indoctrination
• REBT holds that neurotic problems directly
stem from magical, “unvalidated”
thinking
• The solution for dealing with an individual's
demandingness most strongly supported by
REBT is decreasing demandingness