Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Summary

Throughout the program, one of the methods or strategies used was cognitive restructuring by Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). Cognitive restructuring teaches people on how to change their self-defeating thoughts to self-enhancing thoughts. Not only that, muscle relaxation also has help people to cope with living stressed by doing both muscle and mental relaxation. According to Albert Ellis, people contribute to their own psychological problems as well as to specific symptoms, by the rigid and extreme belief they hold about events or situations (Corey, 2013). In other words, irrational thoughts and beliefs hinder one from attaining their goals and creates emotional distress. Cognitive restructuring was associated with our activity “Think Positive” whereby people could change their thoughts and perceptions about themselves, events or situations. In changing thoughts and perceptions activity, we taught the students to identify the stress inducing and
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) help to keep people calm and tap parts of their body while listening to the facilitator’s encouraging words will allow students to slowly draw out and lower their stress level. Students learned not only relaxation but also mentally “let go” by directing their beliefs on pleasant thoughts. Deep muscle relaxation help students relax by tightening and releasing different muscle groups in their bodies. Students are instructed to actually feel and experience the tension building up, to notice their muscles getting tighter, and to hold and fully experience the tension (Corey, 2013). It is good for students to differentiate the muscle tense and