notes april 21 - 4/21 Notes Rational Cognitive Behavioral Therapy REBT versus CBT Influence of Aaron Beck(Univ of Penn o Psychiatrist(psychologist

4/21 Notes Rational Cognitive Behavioral Therapy REBT versus CBT • Influence of Aaron Beck (Univ of Penn) o Psychiatrist (psychologist daughter of Judith Beck) • Began studying cognitions in Depression • Schemas o Frederic Bartlett in the 1930s o Close to Karen Horney's "neurotic expectations" Beck's Typical cognitive Distortions (examples) • Arbitrary influence (boss wants to fire me) • Selective abstraction (my whole painting) • Overgeneralization (I forget everything) • Magnification (I am complete failure) • Personification (The world revolves around me) • Absolutic (world ends if UNC doesn't win) Albert Ellis (1913-2007) • Began with studies of human sexuality o Sex Without Guilt in 1958- book • Ph.D. from Columbia Teachers College in mid-1940s (just like Carl Rogers) • Training in psychoanalysis at Karen Horney Institute (important impact) • Very Iconoclastic and high on Openness) Ellis Irrational Beliefs Model (ABC) A- Event B- Automatic thoughts- C- Emotion