The Theoretical Framework Of Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy?
Over the past hundred years several psychotherapy methods have been developed and many striking approaches have been emerged. Four of these are the leading of special interest: Humanistic approach, Psychodynamic approach, Behavioral approach, and Cognitive approach (Short & Thomas, 2014), of these four approaches more than a few others emerge. In the current paper an overview will be provided on the main theoretical framework of Albert Ellis Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). This essay will not be examining in detail all the potential therapeutic applications of REBT instead, it is going to focus on the therapeutic applications of REBT on anxiety disorders. Furthermore a critical evaluation on the effectiveness of REBT on anxiety will
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The main goal of an REBT therapist is to challenge the wrong-irrational beliefs of their clients in order to replace them with new rational thoughts. When the client tries to respond to the therapist’s challenges he realizes the unreasoning, demanding nature of his beliefs, for approval, fair treatment, and getting whatever he wants. The degradation of those beliefs begins and new more flexible beliefs replace them. This is the part of the therapy that is described with the word “Dispute” and is followed by the part of the effective belief system (E) in this part the client adopt new positive confident statements. Those two additions supplements the ABC model and develops it into ABCDE. Albert Ellis said that it is almost impossible to entirely eliminate these irrational thoughts but it is crucial to deteriorate undermine their strength, frequency and duration. This can be succeeded by using three …show more content…
Paradoxically the positive aggressive nature of REBT from which it derives it’s fast and effective nature, is the very thing that a lot of people might find it too scary and invasive (Gregoire & Jungers, 2007). Similarly another limitation are the invasive ideas of the therapist on clarifying what is rational thinking. The client does not always find these philosophical ideas agreeable, especially if that individual might have adopted varying strategies throughout his life, he might see those new ideas disgruntling (Ellis A. ,
The main goal of an REBT therapist is to challenge the wrong-irrational beliefs of their clients in order to replace them with new rational thoughts. When the client tries to respond to the therapist’s challenges he realizes the unreasoning, demanding nature of his beliefs, for approval, fair treatment, and getting whatever he wants. The degradation of those beliefs begins and new more flexible beliefs replace them. This is the part of the therapy that is described with the word “Dispute” and is followed by the part of the effective belief system (E) in this part the client adopt new positive confident statements. Those two additions supplements the ABC model and develops it into ABCDE. Albert Ellis said that it is almost impossible to entirely eliminate these irrational thoughts but it is crucial to deteriorate undermine their strength, frequency and duration. This can be succeeded by using three …show more content…
Paradoxically the positive aggressive nature of REBT from which it derives it’s fast and effective nature, is the very thing that a lot of people might find it too scary and invasive (Gregoire & Jungers, 2007). Similarly another limitation are the invasive ideas of the therapist on clarifying what is rational thinking. The client does not always find these philosophical ideas agreeable, especially if that individual might have adopted varying strategies throughout his life, he might see those new ideas disgruntling (Ellis A. ,