Matakuliah
Tahun
: L0332 – Psikologi Konseling
: 2009
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
Pertemuan 07
PERTEMUAN 7
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
Introduction
• Albert Ellis: read p. 297
THEORY
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Ellis: People are born, as well as reared, with greater or lesser degrees
of demandingness, and therefore they can change from demanding to
desiring only with great difficulty
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Basic concepts:
* Fundamental and primary goals
* Emotion, cognition and behaviour
* Healthy and unhealthy emotions
* Two biological tendencies
* ABC theory of personality
THEORY
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ABCs for preferential and demanding thinking: read p. 302
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ABCs for primary and secondary demanding beliefs: read p. 303
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Ego disturbance and low frustration tolerance
THEORY
• Reasons contributing to humans staying irrational: read p. 306
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Biological tendencies
Emotional contributions
Insufficient scientific thinking
Reinforcing consequences
Emphasizing oneʹs ʹGodawfulʹ past
Unrealistic beliefs about change
Other cognitive factors
Insufficiently challenging beliefs through action
THERAPY
• Therapeutic goals: read p.308
*Inelegant change goals
* Elegant change goals
THERAPY
• Process of therapy: read p. 310-312
• The therapeutic relationship: read p. 311
• Therapeutic interventions: read p. 312
* Detecting irrational beliefs and their derivatives
* Disputing irrational beliefs and their derivatives
* Cognitive interventions: read p. 313 (4 areas of cognitive
disputing)
THERAPY
• An ABCDE example of cognitive disputing: read p. 314
• Emotive or Experiential intervention: Read p. 317
* Rational-emotive imagery
* Forceful disputing
* Role playing
* Reverse role playing
* Unconditional acceptance
* Humour
THERAPY
• Behavioural interventions:
* Assignments that challenge demandingness
* Shame-attacking exercises
* Skill training
* Use of rewards and penalties
• Overcoming resistance: read p. 321