Albert Ellis/Cognitive Therapy – Flashcards
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Albert Ellis
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first started RET, changed to REBT Goal was to maximize pleasure and minimize pain supported Freud disliked classical analysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy talked about being rational confrontational style
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REBT
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rational-emotive behavior therapy A,B,C Polar opposite of person-centered therapy demonstrate unconditional acceptance of clients even while challenging their irrational beliefs even give unconditional support when they dont do hw and such
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Aaron Beck
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pioneered cognitive therapy from childhood illness and psychoanalysis had health related phobias found that if patients examine and test their negative ideas, their depression will improve Socratic dialogue
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socratic dialogue
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clients are led to make personal discoveries by a tactful progression of questions
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collaborative empiricism
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shared mission to determine the dysfunctional thoughts and pursue better ones
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Beck and Ellis Cognitive Therapy and REBT
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a lot of similarities in cognitive therapy both trained in psychoanalytic tradition and then to cognitive psychotherapy Both share goal of helping clients become conscious of maladaptive cognitions
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Cognitive Theory
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Beck talked more about maladaptive cognitions, dysfunctional attitudes, and depression
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cognitive errors
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overgeneralizing, selective abstraction, excessive responsibility, self-references, dichotomous thinking
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schemas
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client's underlying cognitive organization. where psychopathology originates
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Beck's Cognitive Triad
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events are interpreted negatively depressed individuals dislike themselves the future is appraised negatively Ellis does not see these as irrational
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Becks plan
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initially need to reduce suicidal and depressive thoughts Then cognitive restructuring
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cognitive restructuring
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1. what is the evidence 2. whats another way of looking at it 3. so what if it happens
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distancing
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key skill to teach patients teach them to deal with upsetting thoughts objectively and reevaluate them
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disattribution
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clients remove blame from themselves that they are entirely responsible for the plight
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limited reparenting
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flows directly from the assumption that early maladaptive schemas (thoughts) arise when core needs are not met.
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ABC of REBT
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A = activate the event of life B = believe in using the process of activating events C = experience consequences
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REBT theory of psychopathology
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Psychopathology occurs when irrational beliefs cause emotional consequences
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iB
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irrational beliefs rigid and dogmatic beliefs generate unrealistic and over-generalized attributions
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Therapeutic Processes (REBT)
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consciousness raising (become aware of irrational thinking patterns) counterconditioning (replace irrational thinking with rational thinking) contingency management (rearrange reinforcements to support behavior changes)
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ABCDE
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D = disputing the irrational belief E = Effecticating a new philosophy
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2 Forms of REBT
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General/Inelegant: same as CBT Specialized/Elegant
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anxiety
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might ask a patient to sing a rational/humorous song anxiety is a consequence of irrational beliefs
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defense
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human irrational propensities Projection, Repression, Rationalization got to challenge the defenses
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self esteem
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Uncondtional Self-Acceptance (USA): the key to being a natural and logical member of our own team
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self-acceptance
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logical and justifiable state give up everything else and get to the meaningful question of how we can most enjoy life
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Responsibility
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patients can only be held responsible for their lives if they have been instrumental in creating their personal problems cant be responsible for their genetic makeup even is responsibility is accepted, blame is still not put on oneself
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Intimacy/Sexuality
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not defined as a human neccesity sex is not a dirty desire people who have sex without guilt and anxiety are rational people
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Communication
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most communication problems are thinking problems people who communicate in a boring fashion are actually thinking boring things to become more rational in thinking, communicating has to become more effective too
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Hostility
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irrational consequence of: inborn tendency to be aggressive; experiencing some unpleasant/frustrating event; a tendency to think crookedly about the event and a persistent refusal to work against this crooked tendency
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Hostility (conitnued)
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all 3 previous variables have to be present for hostility to occur
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Hostility solution
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Since it is inborn, the best way is to assist hostile people in constructing frustrations as unfortunate and inevitable events, not major catastrophes they cannot tolerate
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Control
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desire to control others is merely expression of irrational demand to make everyone conform to the world's wishes
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neurotics
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people who think they can transcend restraints, injustices, and frustrations of society they keep fighting the inevitable, so they create anxiety, anger, depression
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Cognitive Processing Therapy
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Patricia Resick integrative cognitive treatment for trauma
