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Theory: REBT
REBT
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Awfulizing | Seeing something inconvenient or obnoxious as awful, horrible, or terrible |
| Aaron Beck | 1921-present; Field: cognitive; Father of: Cognitive Therapy Created: Beck Scales-Depression Inventory, Hopelessness Scale, Suicidal ideation, Anxiety Inventory, & Youth Inventories |
| A of A-B-C-D-F | A= significant activating event or adversity [not activating event, it your beliefs and perception]; |
| B of A-B-C-D-F | B= individuals belief system or interpretation; |
| C of A-B-C-D-F | C= emotional consequence; |
| D of A-B-C-D-F | D= beliefs are disputed both rationally and behaviorally; |
| F of A-B-C-D-F | F= better feeling |
| Behavioral Experiments | Testing distorted beliefs or fears scientifically in a real-life situation (e.g., having a shy person initiate a conversation to see what actually happens). |
| Catastrophizing | Exaggerating the consequences of an unfortunate event. |
| This is an analogy "molehills are made into mountains" is example of | Catastrophizing |
| Cognitive Restructuring | An active attempt to alter maladaptive thought patterns and replace them with more adaptive cognitions. |
| Decatastrophizing | A "what-if" technique designed to explore actual rather than feared events and consequences. |
| Demandingness | The belief of some clients that they must get what they want in life—and it is a terrible tragedy if this does not occur. |
| Dichotomous Thinking | Categorizing experiences or people in black-and-white or extreme terms only (e.g., all good vs. all bad) with no middle ground. |
| Elegant Solution | Solution that helps clients make a profound philosophical change that goes beyond mere symptom removal. |
| Emotive Techniques | Therapy techniques that are vigorous, vivid, and dramatic. |
| Homework | Specific activities to be done between therapy sessions. |
| Irrational Belief | Unreasonable conviction that produces emotional upset (for example, insisting that the world should or must be different from what it actually is). |
| Must-urbation | Coined by Ellis to characterized the Bx of clients who are absolutistic and inflexible in their thinking, maintaining that they must not fail, must be exceptional, must be successful, and so on. |
| Over-generalization | Constructing a general rule from isolated incidents and applying it too broadly. |
| Rational Emotive FamilyTherapy | CB model: GOAL of helping Family members realize that illogical beliefs & distortions cause their emotional distress (linear causality). They're taught to recognize the problem-causing pattern. |
| ABC Theory | |
| Rational Thinking | |
| Irrational Thinking | |
| Self-Acceptance | |
| Self-Actualizing Bx | |
| Positive Regard | |
| Positive Self-Regard | |
| Congruence | |
| Self-Actualizing Tendency | |
| Unconditional Positive Regard | |
| Conditions of Worth | |
| Self-Concept | |
| Genuineness | |
| Self-Actualization | |
| Fully Functioning Person | |
| Self-Defeating Beliefs | |
| Disputing | |
| Cognitive Therapy | |
| Faulty Assumptions | |
| Musts & Shoulds | |
| Circle of Irrational Thinking | |
| Dogmatic Beliefs | |
| Stress-Inoculation | |
| Cognition | |
| Inference Chains | |
| Activating Event |
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