REBT

Therapeutic Goals
• Behavior not equal to person
• Accept imperfection
• Teach client to change their dysfunctional
thought and emotion into a functional one
 Therapist function and role
• Show irrational thought, cognitive
distortion and how they lead to emotional
disturbances
• Moderate thinking and abandon irrational
ideas
• Help client to develop rational philosophy
 Client experience
• Cognitive restructuring
• Here and now
• Actively work outside therapy session
• Review progress, make plan, identify
strategies to deal with continuous or
potential problems
 Relationship C&T
• Unconditionally accept all client and teach
them to unconditionally accept others and
themselves
• Too much warmth and understanding can
be counter productive.
• T: open and direct in disclosing their own
value and their imperfection
• Confront transference as it reflect IB
 Application (Cognitive)
• Disputing IB (should, must, ought )
• Doing cognitive homework
– Absolute thought listing
– REBT Self help Form
– Apply ABC
– Take acceptable risk
– Read REBT Self help book
– Listening and evaluate their own session
 Application
• Changing one’s language
• Using Humor
 Application (Emotive)
• Rational-emotive imagery
• Role Playing
• Shame attacking exercise
• Use of force and vigor
 Application (Behavioral)
• Operant conditioning
• Self management principle
• Systematic desensitization
• Relaxation tech.
• Modeling
• Assertiveness training
 Application
• Psychiatric disorder
• Problems of sex, love, marriage
• Child rearing and adolescence
• Crisis

• Once a week 5-50 sessions

CBT
 Assumption
• Internal communication accessible to
introspection
• Client belief has highly personal meaning
• This meaning can be discovered by client
rather than being taught or interpreted by
therapist
 Cognitive distortion
• Arbitrary inferences (jump to conclusion)
• Selective abstraction (ignore some info)
• Overgeneralization (one equal to all)
• Magnification & minimization
• Personalization
• Labeling &mislabeling (bad thing = bad P )
• Polarized thinking (All or none)
Childhood and
other relevant data
童年經歷及其他
相關資料

Core belief
核心思想

Rules/assumption
規則及假設

Compensation
Strategies
補償策略

Event
事件或情況

Thinking
想法

Consequence
Emotional &
Behavioral
後果 - 情緒、行為
 Application tech.
• Socratic Question
• Role play
• Imagery
• Relaxation
 Application
• Psychiatric disorder
• Couple relationship
• Anger
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