MA CLINICAL PSYCH
COGNITIVE
BEHAVIOR
APPROACH
Albert Ellis
A showy, humorous, and often abrasive figure, first articulated his highly influential based on the A-B-C theory of Change. He
Continued to developing his ideas, teaching, and writing until his death in 2007 at age of 93. His theory used cognitive, behavioral, and affective techniques to help people make themselves less unhappy. Aaron Beck
One of the most disciplined researchers om the field of counseling and psychotherapy. Began his career attempting to scientifically validate Freud’s theory of depression. When the failed, he began researching a cognitive model of depression that results in his rejection and isolation from the psychiatric. …show more content…
But understanding and insight is not enough. In order to significantly change themselves, They almost always have to pinpoint their irrational philosophies work at changing them to more functional and self helping attitudes.
Cognitive, Emotive-evocative and Behavioral. -Ellis 2003-
Rational emotive behavior therapy
(REBT)
the first of the cognitive behavior therapies, and nowadays it continues to be a major cognitive behavioral approach.
REBT has a great deal in common with the therapies that are oriented toward cognition and behavior as it also stresses thinking, judging, deciding, analyzing, and doing. The basic assumption of REBT is that people contribute to their own psychological problems, as well as to specific symptoms, by the rigid and extreme beliefs they hold about events and situations.
REBT is based on the assumption that cognitions, emotions, and behaviors interact significantly and have a reciprocal cause-and-effect relationship.
Moreover REBT’s basic hypothesis is that our emotions stem mainly from our …show more content…
Therapist’s Function and Role
The therapist has specific tasks, and the first step is to show clients how they have incorporated many irrational absolute “should,” “ought's,” and
“musts.”
Moreover somewhat dispute clients’ irrational beliefs and encourages clients to engage in activities that will counter their self-defeating beliefs and to replace their rigid “musts” with preferences.
A second step in the therapeutic process is to validate how clients are keeping their emotional disturbances active by continuing to think illogically and unrealistically.
In other words, because clients keep re programming themselves and the client’s responsible for their own psychological problems.
Therapist’s Function and Role
The Third Step helping clients modify their thinking and minimize their irrational ideas. Even though it is unlikely that we can entirely eliminate the tendency to think irrationally and reduce the frequency of such thinking.